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The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...
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The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941674
The main aim of this work is to explain the Chilean gender wage gap using a dynamic monopsony model to estimate the … approximately 19% - 28% more than women as a result of the difference in labor supply elasticities by gender, ceteris paribus …-firm differences, which suggests that the gender wage gap is driven by structural factors that generate gender sorting to firms …
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This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers’ egalitarian attitudes … trends toward more egalitarian gender roles. …
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This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers’ egalitarian attitudes … trends toward more egalitarian gender roles. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546985
participation using 70 censuses from 36 countries in 1990–2010. We document a strong relationship between the gender wage gap and … the size of the motherhood penalty. The penalty is smallest in countries with small gender wage gaps. Both cross- and … within-country relationships between motherhood penalty and gender wage gap remain strong and negative even when we condition …
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This paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps … no gaps is feasible. We examine the effects of gender-based and gender-neutral subsidies and find that the latter are …
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, was successful in reducing gender disparity in graduate education. I find a sharp convergence of female and male graduate … does not seem to be driven by gender-specific preferences. Alternative explanations including the end of the Vietnam War …
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under-invest in outcomes for their female children. Linking the gender composition of children in Indian households to their … in this paper provide a new first stage association between gender composition of children and sanitation behavior and …
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obtain formal employment while women diverge to the informal sector, which creates gender inequality. The challenge at hand … is how to make more gender sensitive policies that take into account related reproductive rights of women workers and the …
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