This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …

We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared … to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian … selected jobs. We find that women get 33% less interview invitations when they apply for jobs implying a first promotion in …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …, measured in terms of earnings and probability of arrest. We observe that women obtain on average 32% less criminal earnings and … female elasticities increase to the level of the male ones, women would commit 40% more crimes than they actually do …

hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field is level for women and men in the labor market up to a point, after which … the income distribution -- the movement of women and men through the distribution of income over time. We find that there … National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. The standard glass ceiling …

liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the … obvious impact on highly qualified women whose qualifications mirror those of board members but who were not appointed to … that the reform affected the decisions of women more generally; it was not accompanied by any change in female enrollment …

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 …