This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives … determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to grant women easy access to the labor market as, despite the obvious … income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …

Women’s empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … equality between men and women. …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in full-time work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labour market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …

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 … analysis reveals that the crowding of women onto the lower rungs of academia is a strong determinant of their lower average … salary. This effect should be transitory as young women, now entering the profession, move up its ranks. We construct a rank …

public office determines the overall quality of politicians. Women suffer from gender discrimination in the labor market and …This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public … increases the probability of election for women and decreases it for men. The impact of the quota on quality depends on the …

Differences in gender-based labour market discrimination across countries imply that migration may affect husbands and … institutional mechanisms that achieve long-term commitment, the opposite may be true, particularly if women are specialized in … migrant women lead them to bear the double burden of market and household work. …

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 …-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …