This paper analyses the gender dimension of intergenerational transfers in European countries using National Transfer … Accounts data on age- and gender-specific transfers in 2010. We combine data on public and private transfers with demographic … information to estimate gender-specific net transfer benefits by life stage and over the whole life course. Furthermore, public …

Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky … gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using detailed register data on the latest cohorts … of Danish labour market entrants, this paper examines the intergenerational correlation in gender-stereotypical choice of …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

degree of mobility across genders, with a higher mobility level for daughters than for sons. The reason for this gender gap … education of their most educated parent, regardless of their gender and this correlation is higher for female than for male …

transfer of the gender gap in labor force participation. We explore the extent that family- and community-level characteristics …, measured in childhood, differentially predict the likelihood of employment for adult Norwegian men and women. Drawing on … theories pertaining to the importance of information, skills and gender norms transfer, our empirical analysis demonstrates …