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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears … teacher gender) help explain a substantial portion of the gap. While none of these explanations help in explaining a large … portion of the gender gap, we show that boys and girls differ significantly in perceptions about their own ability in math …
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We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we find that a mother's participation in the labor force...
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. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …
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. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of … financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …
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twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly identifies the effect …
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of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …
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children’s education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households …” by the migrants. Left-behind households’ expenditure on children’s education and the gendered distribution of these …’ expenditures on children’s education. This gendered distribution is analyzed by estimating the effect of migration on the share of …
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-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European countries for the analysis. The causal impact of education on gender role … instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education's moderating effect …This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …
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document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … prioritization of science and technology, and the strong female attachment to paid-work. Women born in the FSU, who immigrated in … education, they remain over-represented in STEM, but also differ significantly from other women by their specific avoidance of …
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