TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rodríguez-Planas, Núria
AU  - Tanaka, Ryuichi
        TI  - Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work: Evidence from Japan
        PY  - 2021/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14549
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14549
        AB  - Using individual-level data from the National Family Research of Japan Survey (1999, 2004 and 2009) and exploiting variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and prefecture, we find that an increase in the share of individuals with non-traditional beliefs by one standard deviation is associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3.4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men should work outside and women should look after the family". As we conduct a battery of sensitivity analyses and placebo tests, our findings suggest an impact of non- traditional norms on Japanese women's decision to work full-time.
        KW  - culture
KW  - women's decision to work
KW  - gender norms
        ER  -