Education Gaps Predict Gender Childcare Bias — But by Respondent's Sex

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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.

Article card for article: Household Education Gaps and Gender Role 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.