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Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …
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agricultural land and nutritional outcomes by examining gender differences. Results suggest significant effects of access to …, gender differences are reported. Access to agricultural land appears to be a significant determinant of improved children …
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Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
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households, but also for gender equity and female financial autonomy. …
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We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...
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mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual … negative effects on children were found. The study debunks some myths related to gender roles in African smallholder … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …
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We examine how men and women in mixed-gender unions change the time they allocate to housework in response to labor … changes in paid work time, but gender power relations also appear to play a role. Further results indicate that households … holding more liberal gender role attitudes are more likely to adjust their housework time allocations after female promotion …
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To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …
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Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
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The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework … consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may … grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at …
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