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The Dynamics of Gender Norms and Fertility Decline

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper models fertility as the outcome of gender‐biased technological progress interacting with endogenous social norms governing childcare. When rising female wages outpace norm adjustment, the inherited norm makes reallocating childcare toward fathers costly, so mothers bear a disproportionate burden and the shadow price of children ...
Xican Xi, Anson Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

What Explains Growing Gender and Racial Education Gaps?

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study why US college graduation gaps by gender and race widened across cohorts. We develop a dynamic life‐cycle model with endogenous education, labor supply, marriage, fertility, and welfare participation. Preferences are fixed across cohorts and race/ethnic groups; changes arise from family background, labor‐market opportunities, and ...
Zvi Eckstein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Quantile Model of Firm Investment

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are firms risk averse? We propose a dynamic model of firm investment under uncertainty that captures firms' risk attitudes through quantile preferences. The firm maximizes its present value, defined as current profits and investment plus the discounted value of the τ$\tau$‐quantile of its value next period.
Heitor Almeida   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI, Linguistic Hierarchies and Unequal Access in Under‐Resourced Educational Contexts

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing enthusiasm around generative AI (GenAI) as a transformative force in education, access to these technologies remains profoundly unequal. This qualitative study examines how educators and students in under‐resourced Chinese educational contexts experience unequal access to GenAI and interpret its consequences for language ...
Jinming Du, Qinghua Chen, Wei Wei
wiley   +1 more source

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