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I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …
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. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and … intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …
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holding more conservative gender norms are the ones who mostly reduce their income. This suggests that tax policies can … gender norms. …
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I examine how one central aspect of the family environment—sibling sex composition—affects women’s gender conformity … first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their choice … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …
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In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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interest from suitors relative to those in 'feminine' occupations. Our results highlight the strong effect of gender norms and … traditional gender norms. These findings suggest that expectations regarding returns in the marriage market may influence women …
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prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we …
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Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...
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variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men …
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variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087836