DP20549 Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences
Business
While economists have extensively studied gender norms affecting women, masculinity norms---the informal rules that guide and constrain the behaviors of boys and men---remain underexplored. This review first examines how other disciplines have studied masculinity, providing economists with conceptual foundations and empirical patterns for understanding masculinity norms. We then discuss how the study of masculinity norms can inform the economics literature on gender gaps and men's outcomes
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