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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than men. If employers expect women to do more household work than …, specialization in the family will then make women do most of the household work. Such self-fulfilling prophecies can be broken: Both … affirmative action and family policy can make women spend more effort in the market, which can lead the economy to a non …

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 …

, all male, and coeducational. They were not allowed to change group subsequently. We found that women are less likely to … make risky choices than men at both dates. However, after eight weeks in a single-sex environment, women were significantly … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning …

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …