This note examines how education differences within couples affect gender role attitudes.
🔍 Data & Methods
* A randomized survey experiment conducted during the 2018 European Social Survey (ESS) wave.
🤔 Key Findings
* Household education gaps influence "gender childcare bias" differently based on respondent sex.
* Female respondents with more educated partners show less bias. 🔥
* Male respondents benefit from having less educated partners, showing more bias. 🔥
🧠 Why It Matters
Our results favor a resource-bargaining perspective over gender identity explanations for these attitudes.
| Household Education Gaps and Gender Role Attitudes was authored by Marco Giani, David Hope and Oyvind Skorge. It was published by Cambridge in PSR&M in 2022. |
