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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433603
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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills : Roles of Ses and Gender Attitudes
Herve, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere; Nandi, Arindam - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244271
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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills : Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Herve, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere; Nandi, Arindam - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246474
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What causes the child penalty? : evidence from same sex couples and policy reforms
Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Nix, Emily - 2019
Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005485
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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children
Hufe, Paul - 2024
monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … children's socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between …-sibling variation in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children's socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529736
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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children
Hufe, Paul - 2024
monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children’s socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529250
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783670
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Gender differences in teacher judgement of comparative advantage
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2023
Much research shows that students take account of their perceived comparative advantage in mathematics relative to verbal skills when choosing college majors and career tracks. There is also evidence for an important role for comparative advantage in explaining the gender gap in college STEM...
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Does the child penalty strike twice, and if so why?
Gørtz, Mette; Sander, Sarah; Sevilla, Almudena - 2023
This paper compares the labor market impact of grandparents before and after the arrival of the first grandchild. We show that grandmothers' labor market outcomes decline more steeply than grandfathers' after the first grandchild's arrival, leading to a 4-10 percent gender earnings gap 5-10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422261
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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