This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model...

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult to demonstrate sex-biased hiring. A change in the way symphony orchestras recruit musicians provides an unusual way to test for sex-biased hiring. To overcome possible biases in...

I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism negatively impacts workers' job satisfaction and perception of the task's importance. When female...

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult to demonstrate sex-biased hiring. A change in the way symphony orchestras recruit musicians provides an unusual way to test for sex-biased hiring. To overcome possible biases in...

In recent years the notion that religious and cultural practices should be accommodated even at the cost of relinquishing the protection of women's rights has been gaining prominence and many abuses of women's rights have been dismissed as justified and inevitable. In this article I argue that...

Article 16 obligates States parties to ensure equality between women and men in all aspects of marriage and dissolution of marriage, prohibits child marriage, and obligates states parties to enact a minimum age for marriage and to require marriage registration. The two parts of the article are...