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Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States?

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...

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Female Career Success: Institutions, Path Dependence and Psychology

Henrekson, Magnus; Dreber, Anna - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2004

This paper identifies the pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important...

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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions : An Experiment in Rural Togo

Apedo-Amah, Marie - 2020

Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...

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Gender, information and the efficiency of household production decisions : an experiment in rural Togo

Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020

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Gender, Geography, and Rural Justice

Pruitt, Lisa R. - 2009

This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...

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Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon - 2005

The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality within households produces misleading estimates of...

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Unemployment, market work and household production

Burda, Michael C. (contributor); … - 2009

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...

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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015

The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...

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Time Use Dynamics in Paid Work and Household Activities of Married Women - A Panel Analysis with Household Information and Regional Labour Demand

Merz, Joachim - 2009

The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of …

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Intra-Family Time Allocation to Housework : French Evidence

Anxo, Dominique - 2008

of housework time. Consistent with both bargaining and specialization models of the family, we find that the greater the … husband's share of labor income, the lower his share of housework time; the greater the wife's market hours, the lower his … housework time, but the larger his share of housework time. Treating market work as endogenous substantially lowers the size of …

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