per year. In the decades since, the rate of gender wage convergence has stalled to less than one-third of its previous … value. An outstanding puzzle in economics is "why did gender wage convergence in the US stall?" Using an event study design … explain 94% of the reduction in the rate of gender wage convergence that is unaccounted for after controlling for changes in …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …

favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …