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The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination / Kerwin Kofi Charles, Jonathan Guryan, Jessica Pan.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Charles, Kerwin Kofi.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Guryan, Jonathan.
Pan, Jessica.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24904.
NBER working paper series no. w24904
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Other Title:
Effects of Sexism on American Women
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
Summary:
We study how reported sexism in the population affects American women. Fixed-effects and TSLS estimates show that higher prevailing sexism where she was born (background sexism) and where she currently lives (residential sexism) both lower a woman's wages, labor force participation and ages of marriage and childbearing. We argue that background sexism affects outcomes through the influence of previously-encountered norms, and that estimated associations regarding specific percentiles and male versus female sexism suggest that residential sexism affects labor market outcomes through prejudice-based discrimination by men, and non-labor market outcomes through the influence of current norms of other women.
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August 2018.

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