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We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
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Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...
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This paper studies how spousal bargaining power affects consumption patterns of married households in the US, using a detailed barcode-level dataset. We use two distribution factors as proxies for spousal bargaining power: (1) spouses’ relative education and (2) spouses’ relative potential...
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Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316428
relationship between scholarly discipline, department placement, gender, and annual salary compensation. We found substantial pay … with respect to gender, experience or scholarly citations. …
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together these three produce the "parental gender gap," defined as the difference in income between mothers and fathers. We … fathers manage to expand their relative gains, particularly among college graduates. The parental gender gap in earnings …
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inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
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produced nuanced and gender-aware analyses of the labor market and well-being outcomes of the recession. Using American Time … course of the 2003-12 business cycle. We find that the gender disparity in paid and unpaid work hours followed a U …
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Triangle immigrant influx, to investigate the effects of unemployment and unauthorized immigration on attitudes related to … populism and populist voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. I discover that recent unemployment during the Great … Recession, rather than existing unemployment from before the recession, increased the probability of attitudes forming against …
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This working paper examines how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the authors confirm that, in...
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