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outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …
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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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This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …
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Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …
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's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects … that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality … of women's empowerment and to understanding of the mechanisms to achieve gender equality in education. …
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in the price gap drives a gender difference in the value added by traders. If women had the same characteristics as men … traditional role in local vegetable trade. Furthermore, I show that gender values of the traders can explain the price gap among … rural suppliers. This supports earlier findings connecting the gender price gap with gender stereotypes. …
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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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mobility, unequal educational attainment, financial exclusion, and gender norms. As a result, women are being constrained to … agriculture in order to be fully effective and to avoid further solidifying gender roles and gaps. These could include suitable …
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indices of gender inequality--the Relative Status of Women and the Gender Inequality Index. An analysis of the relationship …This paper compares the geometric variant of the Gender-Related Development Index with that of the Human Development …
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...
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