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Jobs, careers, and becoming a parent under state socialist and market conditions: Evidence from Estonia 1971-2006

Billingsley, Sunnee; Puur, Allan; Sakkeus, Luule - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 64, pp. 1733-1768

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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Paserman, M. Daniele; Gagliarducci, Stefano - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2011

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … regression discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives … working women. This evidence is suggestive that group dynamics are an important factor in driving the gender difference. Other …

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Gender pairing bias in trustworthiness

BONEIN, Aurélie; SERRA, Daniel - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2009

We experimentally examine whether partner's gender information influences trust and trustworthiness behavior. We … gender (or vice versa). We find limited influence for gender information on trust behavior. Conversely, the results show a … strong gender interaction with regard to trustworthiness both at the aggregate and individual levels. The proportion returned …

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Structured Inequalitiesâ€”Factors Associated with Spatial Disparities in Maternity Care in India

Desai, Sonalde; Wu, Lijuan - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 4 (2010) 3, pp. 293-319

Research on India documents considerable heterogeneity in health and health care across states. However, while regional differences are well established, factors underlying these differences have received little attention. This paper seeks to explain disparities in delivery care across districts...

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Impact of Co-working Couples on their Job Performance

Santhosh, V.A.; Kutty, K.V. Krishnan - In: Management and Labour Studies 37 (2012) 2, pp. 125-141

The changing lifestyles, education level and cultural innovations have made much difference in workplace. One major change, which this phenomenon has brought in, is the involvement of increased number of working couples in families followed by the trend to be in the same work place to earn their...

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Can smallholder fruit and vegetable production systems improve household food security and nutritional status of women? Evidence from rural Uganda:

Kabunga, Nassul Ssentamu; Ghosh, Shibani; Griffiths, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This paper aims to empirically infer potential causal linkages between fruit and vegetable (F&V) production, individual F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age.

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Gender differentials in the timing of measles vaccination in rural India

Rammohan, Anu; Awofeso, Niyi; Iqbal, Kazi - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 67, pp. 1825-1848

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Gender and Leadership: an Approach to the Differences between Women and Men in Management

Gaytan, Susana P. - In: Hyperion Economic Journal 2 (2014) 1, pp. 3-11

When a group of persons begins to interact, various differences between the members begin to appear. The pattern of relationships change according to the nature of the task and the most influential person became to be the leader. The aim of the present work is study whether men and women leader...

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Making dough or baking dough? Spousal housework responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011

Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2014

- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying a panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. Nevertheless, traditional gender roles also appear to dictate …

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Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power

Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...

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