Partial Test of Biological Sex on the Swedish Labour Market
(2013) NEKP01 20131Department of Economics
- Abstract
- Testosterone is the main androgen affecting sexual differentiation in-utero. According to the twin testosterone transfer hypothesis, a female fetus sharing uterus with a male is exposed to higher testosterone levels. Likewise, a male fetus sharing uterus with another male is exposed to higher levels. In this short thesis, wages of twins in opposite-sexed pairs are compared to wages of twins in same-sexed pairs, to entangle the possible effect of biological sex on the labour market. However, the effects in the current research set-up also include possible socialization effects of being raised with a male or female sibling, which could be migrated by controlling with non-twin sibling couples. The sample investigated is twins born in Sweden... (More)
- Testosterone is the main androgen affecting sexual differentiation in-utero. According to the twin testosterone transfer hypothesis, a female fetus sharing uterus with a male is exposed to higher testosterone levels. Likewise, a male fetus sharing uterus with another male is exposed to higher levels. In this short thesis, wages of twins in opposite-sexed pairs are compared to wages of twins in same-sexed pairs, to entangle the possible effect of biological sex on the labour market. However, the effects in the current research set-up also include possible socialization effects of being raised with a male or female sibling, which could be migrated by controlling with non-twin sibling couples. The sample investigated is twins born in Sweden between 1935-1958, from the Swedish Twin Registry, to which income register data has been matched from 1968-2007. The results for females indicate that having a twin brother increase wage and the results for males suggest that having a twin brother decrease wage. The original idea of investigating the testosterone transfer hypothesis on the labour market is from a working paper by Gielen, Holmes and Myers (2013). (Less)
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- author
- Moricz, Sara LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKP01 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- twin testosterone transfer, Sweden, gender wage gap, sex
- language
- English
- id
- 3878603
- date added to LUP
- 2013-06-24 12:22:48
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- 2013-06-24 12:22:48
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abstract = {{Testosterone is the main androgen affecting sexual differentiation in-utero. According to the twin testosterone transfer hypothesis, a female fetus sharing uterus with a male is exposed to higher testosterone levels. Likewise, a male fetus sharing uterus with another male is exposed to higher levels. In this short thesis, wages of twins in opposite-sexed pairs are compared to wages of twins in same-sexed pairs, to entangle the possible effect of biological sex on the labour market. However, the effects in the current research set-up also include possible socialization effects of being raised with a male or female sibling, which could be migrated by controlling with non-twin sibling couples. The sample investigated is twins born in Sweden between 1935-1958, from the Swedish Twin Registry, to which income register data has been matched from 1968-2007. The results for females indicate that having a twin brother increase wage and the results for males suggest that having a twin brother decrease wage. The original idea of investigating the testosterone transfer hypothesis on the labour market is from a working paper by Gielen, Holmes and Myers (2013).}},
author = {{Moricz, Sara}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Partial Test of Biological Sex on the Swedish Labour Market}},
year = {{2013}},
}