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On the nature ( and nurture ) of gender differences in work preferences . Evidence from East and West Germany
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Beblo, Miriam Görges, Luise |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | We study the origins of gender differences in work preferences and examine a nature-versusnurture explanation by exploiting the division of Germany and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We test hypotheses on how disparate political systems may have nurtured different gender gaps in preferences, based on German-General-Social-Survey data from 1991, 1998 and 2012. Our analyses reveal a substantial East-West difference in the gender gap directly after reunification and no convergence thereafter. In line with the nurture hypothesis, the findings are driven by cohorts who grew up during separation, and are robust to potential pre-separation differences, selective migration and heterogeneity across states. JEL Codes: C21, J24, P51 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2016/retrieve.php?pdfid=276 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
