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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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Gender Roles and Medical Progress

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...

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Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...

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Gender Roles and Technological Progress

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

participation in the labor force, thus providing the incentive to invest in market skills, potentially narrowing gender earnings …

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Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women

Weinberg, Bruce A.; Shang, Qingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive...

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Tekin, Erdal; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Greve, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual’s labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...

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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

incarceration data. In assessing the three rationales, we find that: (1) SYEP participation causes average earnings and the … probability of employment to increase in the year of program participation, with modest contemporaneous crowdout of other earnings … and employment; (2) SYEP participation causes a moderate decrease in average earnings for three years following the …

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Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility

Fernandez, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, born in the U.S., but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labor force participation and total fertility rates from the...

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The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe

Bloom, David; canning, david; Fink, Günther; Finlay, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For European countries with below-replacement fertility, the cost of continued low fertility will only be observed in the long run. We show that in the short run, a fall in the fertility...

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Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David; canning, david; Fink, Günther; Finlay, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor force participation. The direct effect is concentrated among...

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