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We study the impact of gender norms on the distribution of paid and unpaid labor between women and men in an intra … norm, agents are connected via explicitly modeled social networks and accordingly face heterogeneous perceptions of gender … norms. In our model, social pressure to conform to gender norms exacerbates gender inequalities in the distribution of paid …
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, meaning that intra-household gender gaps in labor supply may reflect both gender norms and earning status. I use a novel … identification approach to disentangle the role of gender norms in intra-household labor supply by estimating collective labor supply … bounds showing that gender norms significantly increase the weight placed on women's utility by 1.1-5.1%, leading to lower …
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, which combines a randomized experimental framework eliciting counterfactual choices with gender norms differences across … ethnicities and cohorts to identify the impacts of individual preferences and gender identity norms. Equal sharing of tasks yields … egalitarian gender attitudes significantly increases the probability of choosing an equal share of housework. Were attitudes …
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, which combines a randomized experimental framework eliciting counterfactual choices with gender norms differences across … ethnicities and cohorts to identify the impacts of individual preferences and gender identity norms. Equal sharing of tasks yields … egalitarian gender attitudes significantly increases the probability of choosing an equal share of housework. Were attitudes …
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has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition …, gender-related inefficiency in household production might undermine the positive impact of improved incentives. Using data …
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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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household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …
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This paper fills a gap in the literature of gender bias in household expenditure by analyzing how institutional norms … and culture show gender bias in various forms, there is no information about gender bias in household expenditure. Using …, the paper examines the presence of gender bias in Iran’s household expenditure. Findings show that women and girls suffer …
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born after 1910. Importantly, we allow for cohort-specific differences by gender. Our estimates show that paternal … results are robust to the presence of hereditary unobserved ability and conjecture that both types of gender specialization …
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We conducted a field experiment in Burkina Faso to investigate the impact of sharing obligations within kin networks on entrepreneurial effort. The overall treatment effect we find is insignificant and goes in the opposite direction than previous literature suggests. Ex-post explorative analysis...
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