Is there too much gender conformity?

Maybe so: Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls’ conformity to gender norms then prevalent in Britain. We link this index to outcomes over the life-cycle. Conditional on age-11 covariates, a one standard deviation increase in our index predicts a 3.5% decline in lifetime earnings, due to […] The post Is there too much gender conformity? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.