observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … regime in that women disproportionately shy away from competitive work settings. Yet, there are important factors that … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …

This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often …

relatively high levels of female labor supply work more in the United States. Moreover, most of this effect remains when we … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The … negative interaction effects between previous work experience and source country female labor supply on women's US work hours …

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …

change and are fairly uniform across regions, our knowledge about the impact of decriminalizing sex work is largely …

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …

Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women … the Pill can account for 10 percent of the convergence of the gender gap in the 1980s and 30 percent in the 1990s. …

evidence that schooling changed women's attitudes towards gender equality. …