This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public … public office determines the overall quality of politicians. Women suffer from gender discrimination in the labor market and … office. We demonstrate that a higher gender quota only decreases the overall quality of those elected when the rewards from …

Differences in gender-based labour market discrimination across countries imply that migration may affect husbands and …

from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and …-long transformation of Kampala involving a gender Kuznets curve. Men rapidly acquired literacy and quickly found their way into white … considerably longer to enter into white-collar and waged work. This led to increased gender inequality during the first half of the …

This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives … income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with … endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development …

of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labour market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the …