different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …

This paper presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede's six … ancestry. The approach focuses attention on how gender roles are shaped across generations within families. Both influences on … the father's and mother's side are studied. Ancestry from more masculine cultures shape more traditional gender roles on …

This paper examines gender inequality and female empowerment in rural Viet Nam. Using an extensive panel dataset on 2 … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

This paper presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede's six … ancestry. The approach focuses attention on how gender roles are shaped across generations within families. Both influences on … the father's and mother's side are studied. Ancestry from more masculine cultures shape more traditional gender roles on …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …