Modern gender roles and agricultural history: the Neolithic inheritance

By C. W. Hansen, Peter Sandholt Jensen, C. Skovsgaard. Journal of economic growth (Boston), 2015

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Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “A related study by Hansen et al. (2015) finds that societies with longer histories of agriculture have lower female labor force participation and less-equal gender roles today, likely due to historically higher fertility and a reduced role for women outside the home.”
What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries? (2019, unknown): “The third study by Hazarika et al. (2015) argues that historic resource scarcity shaped cultures of gender discrimination.”
It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah? The Long-Run Consequences of Male-Biased Sex Ratios (2019, background): “11 See e.g. Fortin (2005, Fernández (2008, 2013), Fernández and Fogli (2009) Alesina et al. (2013), Hansen et al. (2015), Xue (2016).”
Women and corruption: What positions must they hold to make a difference? (2014, methodology): “Sensitivity to alternative measure of corruption We check the sensitivity of our results with the use of an alternative measure of corruption – Corruption Perception Index (CPI).(25) The CPI is published by Transparency International which defines it as “the misuse of public power for private benefi”
Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (2020, background): “Hansen et al. (2015) examine another way that historical experience seems to have shaped modern gender norms.”