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How does gender quota shape gender attitudes?

Chen, Yen-Chien; Fan, Elliott; Ho, Yu-hsin; Lee, … - 2023

Starting in 2002, each electoral district in Taiwan is required to reserve one seat for women out of every four seats at the local councils, creating a 'zigzag' function of female councilors proportion across districts. Using this function, we estimate the effects of exposure to female political...

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Social norms and the impact of early life events on gender inequality

Luo, Wei; Huang, Wei; Park, Albert - 2024

We study the influence of social norms in determining the impact of early life exposure to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 on gender inequality. We model how social norms interact with adverse shocks to affect male and female survival chances and influence subsequent human capital...

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Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents in Soviet-era Russia

Schief, Matthias; Vogt, Sonja; Churilova, Elena; … - 2023

This paper analyzes historical census data from the final Soviet census in 1989. We find that, even in the absence of sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late 1970s and the 1980s were significantly more son-biased than...

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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3.8–4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating...

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Balancing work and care : how workplace factors can mitigate the gendered impacts of caregiving

Firouzi Naeim, Peyman; Johnston, David; Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2025

Parental caregiving responsibilities can disrupt paid work, contributing to persistent gender inequalities in employment and earnings. Using Australian employer-employee linked data and a dynamic difference-in-differences approach, this study examines how workplace environments shape the impacts...

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Son preference, maternal care and sex ratios at birth

Echávarri-Aguinaga, Rebeca; BeltránTapia, Francisco - 2023

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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...

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The Indian ultrasound paradox

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2012

The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s made prenatal ultrasound technology affordable and available to a … large fraction of the population. As a result, ultrasound use amongst pregnant women rose dramatically in many parts of … India. This paper provides evidence on the consequences of the expansion of prenatal ultrasound use on sex-selection. We …

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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia; Tam, Hiu - 2016

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Gender discrimination and the sex ratio of immigrants

Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2022

We use data on international migration to study the causal effect of gender discrimination on the sex-ratio of immigrants to the U.S. during the 1970-2019 period. We measure gender discrimination in the countries of origin using the Women, Business, and the Law (WBL) index, which measures legal...

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