Nabanita Datta Gupta

Gender,Pay and Development: a Cross Country Analysis (2009)

Nabanita Datta Gupta

Gender,Pay and Development: a Cross Country Analysis

University and The Empirical Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes Conference (2008)

Marianne Simonsen, Stefan Bender, Martin Browning, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Michael Lechner, Helena S. Nielsen, ...

Government Studies We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net effect includes the total wage costs, whereas the direct...

Work Environment Satisfaction and Employee Health:: Panel Evidence from Denmark, France and Spain, 1994- (2008)

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai

null  This paper investigates whether a satisfactory work environment can promote employee health even after controlling for socioeconomic status and life style factors. A dynamic panel model of...

Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002 (2008)

Bjørnskov, Christian, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Pedersen, Peder J.

Previous empirical research has been unable to find a sufficient correlationbetween subjective well-being and per capita income, being hampered by limited longitudinal information and an inability to...

The impact of Nordic countries' family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children (2008)

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina, Verner, Mette

The Nordic countries at the same time exhibit a remarkably high participation rate of mothers and a more moderate decline in fertility rates compared to other Western countries. This has been...

De økonomiske effekter af familievenlig politik i de nordiske lande (2008)

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina, Verner, Mette

I denne artikel belyser vi den senesteforskning indenfor effekterne af familiepolitikken i de nordiske lande. Vi spørger, hvilke fordele og ulemper familiepolitikken har haft for ligestillingen,for...

The validity of vignettes in cross country health studies (2008)

Pozzoli, Dario, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai

nullCross-country comparisons of subjective assessments may be ham-pered by sub-population speci.c response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular - notably...

External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies (2008)

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai, Pozzoli, Dario

Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become...

New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap:: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer? (2006)

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Eriksson, Tor Viking

nullWe estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish...

What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002 (2004)

Bjørnskov, Christian, Gupta, Nabanita Datta

Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall's Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a...

Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark (2002)

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina

Abstract: The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on longitudinal data covering the years 1980-1995. The estimated model controls for unobserved...

Wage Dispersion, Public Sector Wages and the Stagnating Danish Gender Wage Gap (1998)

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina

The gender wage gap in Denmark has virtually stagnated since the early 70s. This study examines whether this stagnation is mainly due to a changing wage dispersion or to changing prices on observed...

Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Mette Verner

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the...

Poverty and Fertility - An Instrumental Variables Analysis on Indian Micro Data

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Dubey, Amaresh

The gender of the first two children is used as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of fertility on poverty of rural nucleus households in India. In India, male children are viewed as...

The Impact of Worker and Establishment-level Characteristics on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Danish Matched Employee-Employer Data

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Donna S. Rothstein

This paper uses matched employer-employee data from Denmark to examine how gender segregation at the level of occupation, industry, establishment, and job-cell impacts the gender wage differential of...

New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Tor Eriksson

We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private...

Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence

Marie-Claire Villeval, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...

Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, AMarie-Claire Villeval

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...

Analysing trends in US and Danish gender wage gaps in the 1980s and 1990s

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith

Trends in US and Danish gender wage gaps in the 1980s and 1990s are analysed within the framework of simple auto-regressive time-series models. Results show a saturation effect in the wage progress...

Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People

Henning Bach, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jan Høgelund

Vocational rehabilitation in the form of education is the cornerstone of governmental rehabilitation programs for the work-disabled in many countries. Merging a 2004 Danish survey to register...

Multivariate mixed proportional hazard modelling of the joint retirement of married couples

Mark Y. An, Bent Jesper Christensen, Nabanita Datta Gupta

We analyse the joint distribution of the durations until retirement of Danish husbands and wives. We estimate a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model that allows for interdependence in the...

Swimming upstream, floating downstream: Comparing women's relative wage progress in the United States and Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith

Applying a new decomposition method to U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data, the authors compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps developed between 1983 and 1995. In Denmark, they find,...

Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen

Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide...

PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE: The impact of Nordic countries’ family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Mette Verner

Family friendly policies, Parental leave, Child care, Female labour force participation, Nordic countries, J1, J2, D1,

Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Leslie S. Stratton

The word for ‘married’ in Danish is the same as the word for ‘poison’. The word for 'sweetheart' in Danish is the same as the word for 'tax'. In this paper we expand upon the literature...

Hearing Loss and Disability Exit: Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies

Vibeke T. Christensen, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Martin V. Rasmussen

Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measured hearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing loss on receipt of...

Swimming upstream, floating downstream: Comparing women's relative wage progress in the United States and Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith

Applying a new decomposition method to U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data, the authors compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps developed between 1983 and 1995. In Denmark, they find,...

Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Relative Wage Position in the U.S. and Denmark

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina

We compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps have developed between 1983 and 1995 using U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data. Using a new decomposition method, we show that changes in...

Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages

Bonke, Jens, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina

This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on Danish time use survey data from 1987, merged to register information on hourly...

What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002

Christian Bjørnskov, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Peder J. Pedersen

Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall’s Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a...

Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...

Non-cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen

Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide...

Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...

Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...

Male and Female Competitive Behavior

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval

competition; tournament; piece rate; gender; risk-aversion; relative ability; experiment

Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen, Marie-Claire Villeval

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our...

Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Leslie S Stratton

We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more...

Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Leslie S. Stratton

Differences in the pattern of marriage, cohabitation, childbirth, and intrahousehold specialization between the United States and Denmark, as well as a rich, register-based panel sample of about...

The validity of vignettes in cross country health studies

Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Kristensen, Nicolai, Pozzoli, Dario

Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments may be ham- pered by sub-population speci…c response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular - notably...