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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … for some women, its predominant domesticity reinforced inegalitarian gender norms over the long run. …This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … household work. These gender inequalities are accompanied by weaker political participation among women. While the historical … frontier may have been empowering for some women, its predominant domesticity reinforced inegalitarian gender norms over the …
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more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …
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more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …
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/or cultural determinants of family structure influence female labor force participation. Not surprisingly, we also find that the … immigrant women to share childcare and other household responsibilities, which in turn increases the probability that they work … outside of the home. -- Family Structure ; Female Labor Force Participation and Immigrants …
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Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability …
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the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth … family fixed effects estimations, we find that being first-born confers a significant educational advantage that persists … when considering earnings; being last-born confers none. -- birth order ; family size ; education …
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