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To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …
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subjects condition their behaviour on the gender of their co-player. In order to identify the role of culture and gender norms … inequality aversion depending on the gender of their co-player, in a manner that is mediated by their culture and gender norms. …, we run the experiment in two countries, Norway and India, characterised by very different levels of gender inequality. We …
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, we estimate the effects of exposure to female political leadership on gender attitudes and behaviors. For son preference …, we find that the gender quota reduced the propensity for parents with two daughters to give a third-parity birth, whereas … self-reported son preference revealed in survey data. We further find that the gender quota encouraged female high school …
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Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …
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Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …
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' stated preferences regarding their prospective employees' gender. More specifically, the proportion of gender-neutral job … the share of gender-neutral job posts. However, it also appears that there are two distinct narratives, one concerned with …, the narrative on personal relations set off considerably earlier than the change in the proportion of gender-neutral job …
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are still underrepresented in several occupations. In this article, the effect of gender norms on whether women enter male …-dominated occupations is analysed using differences in gender equality among early-arrival migrants. The variations in gender norms … occupational choices. Using data from the American Community Survey, it is found that greater gender equality in the country of …
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led to salient discussions about systematic gender-related violence and harassment. This paper estimates the impact of the …
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results highlight the importance of culture and socialization for gender differences in competitiveness and suggest that the …Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … previously been studied. We find that, unlike in the patriarchic society, there is no significant gender difference in the …
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document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … cohort of young Israeli women, we identify the persistence of two important features of the Soviet culture: the …
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