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 …

suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent … country studies find export led growth in middle and low income countries is associated with improvements in women …

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that …

narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the mid-1990s. Women top executives earn between 8% to 25% less than male … gap is statistically related to the gender of the Chief Executive and Corporate Board Chair. Women CEO and Board Chairs …Using data on Executive Compensation from Standard and Poor's ExecuComp, this paper explores the gender gap in top …

job dissatisfaction, particularly amongst men. While women who experience gender discrimination are somewhat more likely …This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In … particular, we are interested in assessing whether these concepts measure similar forms of gender-biased behavior and whether …

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …

We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared … labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the … selected jobs. We find that women get 33% less interview invitations when they apply for jobs implying a first promotion in …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …