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. …

-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. … 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. I find that family-related constraints and dissatisfaction with … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between …

British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status … best paying occupation, not necessarily that current or most recent, on the grounds that mature women workers are often … marital history, and fertility intentions have little or no explanatory power. Participation rates among women who are neither …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … 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. …

Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because … 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 …