Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience …. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …

a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by … missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or … approximately 30 percent of the wage gap observed among married men and women with children. If the need for coordination is …

decline up to mid-20th century followed by a sustained increase, and a monotonic decline for men. We propose a multisector …, while marketization reallocates labor from home to market services. Given gender comparative advantages, the first channel … is more relevant for men, reducing male hours, while the second channel is more relevant for women, increasing female …

, the gender pay convergence at labor-market entry stems from younger men's larger positional losses in the wage …This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of … career spillovers disproportionately affect the career trajectories of younger men because they are more likely than younger …

behavioral and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional … distribution where the gender gaps are most pronounced. Accounting for the disproportionate effects of family environment on boys … at the tails substantially narrows the gender gap in high school dropout …

ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … less-skilled men, they experienced deteriorating returns to education but, unlike the men, they benefited from a growing …, while the returns to experience have declined among less-skilled men. The negative effect of children and marital status on …

fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal …

took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital … bargaining power of husbands and wives. We show that men face a tradeoff between the rights they want for their own wives (namely …