different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

This paper presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede's six … ancestry. The approach focuses attention on how gender roles are shaped across generations within families. Both influences on … the father's and mother's side are studied. Ancestry from more masculine cultures shape more traditional gender roles on …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …

This paper presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede's six … ancestry. The approach focuses attention on how gender roles are shaped across generations within families. Both influences on … the father's and mother's side are studied. Ancestry from more masculine cultures shape more traditional gender roles on …