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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …
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SHE can't afford it and HE doesn't want it : the gender gap in the COVID-19 consumption response
Huber, Stefanie J. - 2022
This paper explores whether and why the pandemic differentially altered women and men's consumption behavior. After the 2020 wave of lockdown restrictions were lifted, women reduced consumption more than men. Data on self-reported reasons for consuming less reveals that gender differences in...
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The Gender Gap in 'Bitcoin Literacy'
Bannier, Christina E. - 2019
Using nationally representative US data, we show that women possess weaker knowledge regarding the characteristics of Bitcoin compared to men. Investigating the determinants driving this gap, we find that socio-demographics and personality traits explain only a small share of the gap. Adding...
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The Power of a Financially Literate Woman in Intra-Household Financial Decision-Making
Banerjee, Anurag Narayan; Hasan, Iftekhar; Kumar, Kamlesh; … - 2021
, property) and informal banking (such as savings at home, loans from moneylenders), we find that household product holdings are …-focused products, such as savings and insurance products, favored by women. The findings emphasize the importance of financial literacy …
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Gender roles and the gender expectations gap
D'Acunto, Francesco; Malmendier, Ulrike; Weber, Michael - 2020
Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283124
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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals
Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376220
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529904
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Like father, like daughter (unless there is a son) : sibling sex composition and women's STEM major choice in college
Oguzoglu, Umut; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2016
We investigate the potential role of fathers in females' decision to choose a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) major in college. The main innovation of our paper is to analyze how sibling sex composition affects the probability of being a STEM major in college for females...
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