Gender and the long-run development process. A survey of the literature

Y Merouani, F Perrin - European Review of Economic History, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender
equalities? To what extent does gender equality foster economic growth and development …

The effects of social movements: Evidence from# MeToo

R Levy, M Mattsson - Available at SSRN 3496903, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Social movements are associated with many large societal changes, but evidence of their
causal effects is limited. We study the effect of the MeToo movement on an important …

How are gender norms perceived?

L Bursztyn, AW Cappelen, B Tungodden, A Voena… - 2023 - nber.org
Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In
this paper, using newly collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that …

Wind of change? Cultural determinants of maternal labor supply

B Boelmann, A Raute, U Schonberg - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she
has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood …

Marshall Lecture 2022: The Economics of Women's Rights

M Tertilt, M Doepke, A Hannusch… - Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no
say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have …

Pay transparency and cracks in the glass ceiling

E Duchini, S Simion, A Turrell - 2020 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
This paper studies firms' and employees' responses to pay transparency requirements. Each
year since 2018, more than 10,000 UK firms have been required to disclose publicly their …

Culture and gender differences in willingness to compete

KE Hauge, A Kotsadam, A Riege - The Economic Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate how culture affects gender differences in willingness to compete in a large
pre-registered experiment using an epidemiological approach. Our sample of 1,943 …

Does the internet reduce gender gaps? The case of Jordan

M Viollaz, H Winkler - The Journal of Development Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates the link between digital technologies and female labour outcomes in
a country with one of the lowest female labour force participation (LFP) rates. It exploits the …

Gender economics: An assessment

A Sevilla - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent
years, and Gender Economics is slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This …

Diffusion of gender norms: Evidence from Stalin's ethnic deportations

A Miho, A Jarotschkin… - Journal of the European …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using Stalin's ethnic deportations
as a historical experiment. Over 2 million Soviet citizens, mostly Germans and Chechens …