employees to accept lower wages as well? As an alternative to reviewing statistical data we have performed an experiment with a … that employers will not lower wages correspondingly and that employees will resist such wage cuts. Our experiment casts two …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … households.In equilibria where men are over-represented in full-time work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …

Laws consist of two components: the 'obligations' they express and the 'incentives' designed to enforce them.In this … paper we run a public good experiment to test whether or not obligations have any independent effect on cooperation in … social dilemmas.The results show that, for given marginal incentives, different levels of minimum contribution required by …

abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred …-use data to consider the distribution within the household of market work and housework, and discuss the work specialization …

recently. Such beliefs are false if the onset of events is in fact independent of previous events. We study gender differences …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

-time borrowers to loan officers of a large Albanian lender, we test for own-gender bias in the loan officer-borrower match. We find … is independent of loan officer gender. Ending up with an opposite-sex loan officer also affects demand for credit, with …

to show that own-gender preferences affect both credit supply and demand. Borrowers matched to officers of the opposite … gender are less likely to return for a second loan. The effect is larger when officers have little prior exposure to … borrowers of the other gender and when they have more discretion to act on their gender beliefs, as proxied by financial market …