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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...

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The Motherhood Penalty in China: Having A Child Increases Gender Inequality in the Labor Market

Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022

Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings,...

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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...

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The effect of COVID-19 on the gender gap in remote work

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2024

We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with WFH being more prevalent among women than among men....

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Should we cheer together? Gender differences in instantaneous well-being during joint and solo activities: An application to COVID-19 lockdowns

Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has confined millions in their homes, representing an unprecedented case for spending more time together with family members. This is a challenge for households, given that more time with the partner or children may not necessarily translate into increased well-being. This...

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? A longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market

Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; Van der Bracht, Koen - 2020

Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …

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Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

degree of specialization in more narrowly defined household tasks from the 2001-2019 waves of the Household, Income and … provides limited evidence of specialization in any type of relationship. The results for women are much stronger. Women who … yields some further evidence of specialization. Survey responses on the degree of specialization are more informative. The …

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Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices

Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021

We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework … that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization … specialization dissimilarity. Preferences and characteristics contribute about equally to field specialization dissimilarity. …

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School-age bullying, workplace bullying and job satisfaction: Experiences of LGB people in Britain

Drydakis, Nick - 2018

Using a data set that contains information on retrospective school-age bullying, as well as on workplace bullying in the respondents’ present job, the outcomes of this study suggest that bullying, when it is experienced by sexual orientation minorities tends to persist over time. According to...

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