the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce … workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies. We provide new evidence on employer provision of … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …

This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment …. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household … production, including time with children. In looking at family, we focus on mothers with children. Next we examine key challenges …

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of … factor in modeling family outcomes …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … quantitative contributions of the many significant changes in the economic environment, family structure, and social norms that … family structure changes, we find that a simple change in preferences towards work can account for the remaining change in …

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer … import competition are concentrated on women, and gender earnings inequality increases. The paper establishes the market …