Plausibly Exogenous [909] - Gender Bias (07/26/2022)
LHS Variable
Firm access to trade credits
RHS Variable
Female production workers
Source of Exogenous Variation
Population-weighted measure of ancestral plough agriculture as a source of variation in gender bias (The economic reasoning is that the practice of plough agriculture generated a division of labor along gender lines, where men specialized in work outside the home in the fields and women specialized in housework. This is because plough agriculture requires substantial upper body strength and bursts of power to control the plough, which gives men an advantage relative to women. Societies featuring traditional plough agriculture have thus developed beliefs that the natural place for women is at home, and such beliefs have persisted even after these societies moved out of agriculture.)
- An (2020), “Is there an employee-based gender gap in informal financial markets? International evidence”