stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …

significantly increases the labor force participation rate of women and the employment rates of both men and women. Our results … unpaid agricultural work into operating small agricultural enterprises, while women take more unpaid jobs, especially in … agriculture, and operate more small businesses in all sectors. Both men and women are more likely to work in wage jobs in the …

As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …

The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product …

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by …. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied …

questions that measure knowledge of basic financial concepts, women are less likely than men to answer correctly and more likely … to indicate that they do not know the answer. In addition, women give themselves lower scores on financial literacy self …-assessments than men. Both young and old women show low levels of financial literacy. Moreover, women for whom financial knowledge is …

Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on …