a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper …Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and … partial closing of the gender wage gap; dramatic changes in home production technologies; and the emergence of the internet as …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men. …

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 …