the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two … findings suggest that employers were not sexist. First, differences in earnings by gender for workers paid piece rates can be …

the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two … findings suggest that employers were not sexist. First, differences in earnings by gender for workers paid piece rates can be …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: to gain less from negotiation, women appear to …

impact of power outages on fertility is an important policy issue. For example, barriers of access to family planning may … translate a temporary increase in fertility into a permanent increase in the population. In addition, if a woman is at a …

This paper answers the question whether extreme power rationing can induce changes in human fertility and thus …-run fertility. Exploiting this variation, we show that women who had a black-out baby find themselves in worse socio …

The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the … female schooling appears to be the norm, although it has not attracted comment. This paper considers various explanations … disaggregated by years of schooling is constructed using Oaxaca decompositions. This index is indeed negatively correlated with …

concluded that divorce has little effect on women's average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … us to look at the impact of marital breakup throughout the income distribution, however, we find that divorce greatly … increases the probability that a woman lives in a household with income in the bottom quartile. While women partially offset the …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels …