Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on evidence that absences of young female Italian bank employees follow a 28-day cycle.We analyze absenteeism of teachers and find no evidence of increased female absenteeism on a 28-day cycle.We also show that the evidence of 28-day cycles in the Italian data is not robust to the correction of coding errors or small changes in specification.We show that five day workweeks can cause misleading group differences in absence hazards at multiples of 7, including 28 days.
DOI: 10.3386/w16523
Authors: Jonah Rockoff, Mariesa Herrmann
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2154030657