History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …

a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …