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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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, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and …This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …
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and in performance. Furthermore, we show how the stereotype survives and even gets reinforced. Considering gender and …
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persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational …
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, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and …This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …
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We study gender differences in willingness to guess. We present the results of a field experiment where participants … not penalized, there are no gender differences in willingness to guess. However, when there is a penalty for incorrect … explain the gender gap in numerical questions. Also, overconfidence contributes to explaining females’ higher willingness to …
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of gender composition of teams on performance, self … school students into two groups: we assign students in one group to teams of varying gender composition using random …-formed gender-biased teams prefer even more gender-biased teams ex-post. Our results also show that female-predominant teams under …
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, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work … can reconcile the common decline of both gender gaps …
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and...
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We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and …
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