Gender role attitudes and male-female income differences in China

Abstract By investigating deep-rooted cultural norms, this paper explores whether and how traditional gender role attitudes impact income gaps between men and women and identifies causal effects via instrumental variable and other causal inference methods. Based on data from the Chinese General Soci...

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Main Author: Shisong Qing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-07-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-020-00123-w