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advances in gender equality. Several studies have examined how competitive FDI pressures might lower gender inequality by … transfer reduces gender employment and gender wage gaps in developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first … with foreign investment to reduce gender inequality in occupations that suffer most from discrimination, while technology …
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This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male‐dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We … find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the … losing to women. Our results shed some light on the behavioral changes that lead to differential outcomes when the gender …
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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this …
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persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to …
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household compositions suggests that the substantial gender gap can be explained by the intra-household specialisation of men …
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This study explores the influence of Internet use on the gender wage gap in China by using national longitudinal survey … the conclusions. Second, the gender difference in return to Internet use is higher in the low-education group and older … age cohorts. Third, both the components-the gender disparity in Internet access and gender difference in return to …
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industries. This creates a countercyclical gender income gap as women become breadwinners in recessions, producing an insurance … human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …
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Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered …
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This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...
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