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house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for the UK. On the one hand, Campbell and Cocco … impact on consumption across age groups, consistent with the so-called common factor hypothesis. First, we confirm that the … construction, and provide evidence that the functional form (i.e., an Euler equation of consumption vs. a reduced form life …
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share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done … equal in households where men are working from home and where they have been furloughed/ lost their job. There are likely to …
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This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several … sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport …
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and we present new evidence that a UK academic diversity programme (Athena Swan) has narrowed the gender pay gap at a …
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This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the … epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living … gender equality in the parents' country of ancestry. We find that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of …
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industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …
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, leading to a 4-10 percent gender earnings gap 5-10 years later. The child penalty is shifted across generations to … grandmothers with low education, but daycare availability only affects child penalties. Gender biases towards older women's work …
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paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending … partners and that they are spending a larger fraction of their paid work hours having to juggle work and childcare. Gender … differences in the allocation of domestic work cannot be straightforwardly explained by gender differences in employment rates or …
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Given the ongoing efforts to close the gender pay gap across different sectors in the UK, this paper investigates the … impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university sector, focusing on the Russell Group of top … increased by around 0.62 percentage points compared to male counterparts, reducing the gender pay gap by 4.37%. The effect is …
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of a standard deviation in the gender gap in maths from primary to secondary school in the UK, and show that adolescent … development contributes to explain almost two thirds of the widening of the math gender gap during the adolescence years. We also … relationships between adolescent development and the increase in the gender gap in math in secondary school. …
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