Gender Roles and Medical Progress

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti

NBER Working Paper No. 14873
Issued in April 2009

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This paper first appeared under the title "GENDER ROLES AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS." For useful comments, we wish to thank Raquel Fernández, Simon Gilchrist, Claudia Goldin, Jeremy Greenwood, John Knowles, Valerie Ramey, Roberto Samaniego, Michele Tertilt and seminar participants at many institutions. We also thank Natalie Bau, Jenya Kahn-Lang for assistance with data collection, and Maria Jose Prados and Mikhail Pyatigorski for outstanding research assistance. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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