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The Role of Skills and Tasks in Gender Gaps in Latin America

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore gender gaps in the labor market in Latin America, incorporating two relevant factors often overlooked: skills and the type of tasks performed at work. The study is based on data from the 2018 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) for four Latin American countries.
Cristian Bonavida, Leonardo Gasparini
wiley   +1 more source

Life-course-sensitive analysis of group inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition

Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Inequalities in outcomes often result from processes that unfold over individuals’ prior life courses. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyse such inequalities between groups in a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose to combine the strengths of Sequence Analysis to study the multidimensional complexity of life courses with the ...
Rowold, C, Struffolino, E, Fasang, AE
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Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects

Health Economics, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 929-946, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb, Alexander O. K. Marin, Jes Søgaard   +2 more
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Comparison of catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenditure among older adults in the United States and South Korea: what affects the apparent difference?

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Medical spending rises sharply with age. Even with universal health insurance, older adults may be at risk of catastrophic out-of-pocket medical spending. We aimed to compare catastrophic out-of-pocket medical spending among adults ages 65 and
Narae Kim, Mireille Jacobson
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Urban-rural disparities in institutional delivery among women in East Africa: A decomposition analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundThough institutional delivery plays a significant role in maternal and child health, there is substantial evidence that the majority of rural women have lower health facility delivery than urban women.
Reta Dewau, Dessie Abebaw Angaw, Getahun Molla Kassa, Baye Dagnew, Yigizie Yeshaw, Amare Muche, Dejen Getaneh Feleke, Eshetie Molla, Enyew Dagnew Yehuala, Sisay Eshete Tadesse, Melaku Yalew, Zinabu Fentaw, Ahmed Hussien Asfaw, Assefa Andargie, Muluken Genetu Chanie, Wolde Melese Ayele, Anissa Mohammed Hassen, Yitayish Damtie, Foziya Mohammed Hussein, Zinet Abegaz Asfaw, Elsabeth Addisu, Bezawit Adane, Fanos Yeshanew Ayele, Bereket Kefale, Aregash Abebayehu Zerga, Tefera Chane Mekonnen, Mogesie Necho, Oumer Abdulkadir Ebrahim, Metadel Adane, Tadesse Awoke Ayele   +29 more
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The Gender Gap in Financial Literacy—The Role of Response Behavior

Journal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT The gender gap in financial literacy favoring men is a well‐documented phenomenon. Research reveals that women more frequently opt for the “do not know” (DK) response option than men. As the gender gap in financial literacy is evident at a young age and should be counteracted early, we focus on a sample of German adolescents (N = 1958) and ...
Lucy Haag, Luis Oberrauch, Taiga Brahm
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Decomposition and comparative analysis of urban-rural disparity in attitude towards advance care planning among Chinese adults: A nationwide study

BMC Public Health
Background Examining urban-rural disparity in Chinese adults’ advance care planning (ACP) attitudes is crucial for healthcare decision-making. A comprehensive understanding of contributing factors, especially through decomposition and comparative ...
Xue Wang, Yibo Wu, Lina Ge, Meizhen Zhao, Yi Ma, Shuang Zang   +5 more
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The Role of Internet Usage on Gender Wage Gap: Evidence From Indonesia

JDE (Journal of Developing Economies)
This study analyzes the effect of internet usage on the gender wage gap within Indonesia’s labor market. Using data from the 2022 National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas), the research employs robust least square regression, quantile regression, and the ...
Martina Nurma Dewi, Arie Damayanti
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Population average gender effects [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper I develop a consistent estimator of the population average treatment effect (PATE) which is based on a nonstandard version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition.
Słoczyński, Tymon
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Gender Norms in Transition? Parents' Housework and Childcare Time in the COVID‐19 Era

Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 881-894, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective We examined whether gender disparities in time spent in childcare and housework in the years after the start of the pandemic increased, decreased, or returned to pre‐pandemic levels. Background At the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, parents experienced increased time in unpaid labor. Many scholars argued that this increase signaled a
Jennifer March Augustine, Kate Prickett
wiley   +1 more source