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Paying for parity: Incentivizing men in feminized occupations

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  • Cobreros, Lucía
  • Sunyer, Carlos
  • Vall Castelló, Judit

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We find that gender-neutral financial incentives increased the share of male General Practice (GP) residents by 30% in Catalonia, Spain. Exploiting a salary supplement policy for GP residents and a synthetic difference-in-differences design, we estimate an increase of 8.3 percentage points, with effects concentrated in areas receiving larger wage increases. We also document suggestive evidence of lower GP vacancy rates in treated regions after the policy, although this pattern cannot be interpreted causally. To our knowledge, these results provide the first causal evidence that gender-neutral financial incentives can attract men into a highly feminized occupation.

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  • Cobreros, Lucía & Sunyer, Carlos & Vall Castelló, Judit, 2026. "Paying for parity: Incentivizing men in feminized occupations," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 267(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:267:y:2026:i:c:s0165176526002831
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2026.113089
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    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare

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