marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference … driven by selection and are robust to several specification checks, including the introduction of household fixed effects and …

analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household … household spending were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolment outcomes as revealed in census data for … expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich (Jiangsu) Chinese province we are able to test for different types of gender bias …

Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent … divorce has little effect on women’s mean household income. However, using a Quantile Treatment Effect methodology (Abadie et … very high household income. It appears that some women successfully generate income through child support, welfare …

Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent … concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … increases the probability that a woman lives in a household with income in the bottom quartile. While women partially offset the …

the British Household Panel Survey, including the retrospective histories concerning work, union, and child bearing, to …

organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on An overlapping generations model of marriage, fertility and nature of the is … captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. They … are free to accept or reject marriage proposals. Married agents make their decisions through bargaining about work, and …

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 …

cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market … explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. It estimates workforce participation …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …

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 …