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Couple's labor supply, taxes, and the division of housework in a gender-neutral lab
Schröder, Melanie; Burow, Norma - 2016 - This version: July 4, 2016
decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …
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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
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Face mask use and physical distancing before and after mandatory masking : no evidence on risk compensation in public waiting lines
Seres, Gyula; Balleyer, Anna; Cerutti, Nicola; … - 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of mandatory face mask usage triggered a heated debate. A major point of debate is whether community use of masks creates a false sense of security that would diminish physical distancing, counteracting any potential direct benefit from masking. We...
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019
significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …
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Why do women favor same-gender competition? : evidence from a choice experiment
Burow, Norma; Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; … - 2017 - This version April 2017
's substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …
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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : [an extended structural model for policy evaluations]
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018
young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial …
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Who are the essential and frontline workers?
Blau, Francine D.; Koebe, Josefine; Meyerhofer, Pamela - 2020
Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We develop a working definition that may inform additional research and policy...
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
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COVID-19 : a crisis of female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …
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