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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures : insight from US prison records
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696667
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US male obesity from 1800-2000 : a long term perspective
Carson, Scott Alan - 2013
This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786082
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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624542
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Female and male body mass, height, and weight during US economic development: 1860s-1930s
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs … weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252414
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The effects of professor gender on the post-graduation outcomes of female students
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Rintala, Bryson M.; … - 2022
Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167153
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509636
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Long-term changes in married couples' labor supply and taxes : evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2018
in married women's employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919474
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011
A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388372