The Research Seminar on Environment, Resources and Climate (RSERC) is jointly organized by DIW Berlin, TU Berlin and MCC Berlin. It brings together environmental and resource economists from the Berlin and Potsdam universities and research institutions that discuss latest research by distinguished external scholars or by members of the group. On May 3, Matti Liski (Aalto University Helsinki) will...
Abstract: In this paper we empirically investigate the intergenerational transfer of a gender gap in labor force participation. Specifically, we analyze the extent to which the family and the local community nurture the gender gap. We utilize extremely rich registry data that allows us to estimate the effect of gender on labor force participation in sibling fixed effects models, and study how the...
