household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender … expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic …

piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters. When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily … unexplained gender pay gap. We study the sensitivity of the estimates with regard to i) the availability of observationally … factors matter greatly. Blinder-Oaxaca estimates of the unexplained gender pay gap decline by up to 39% when we enforce …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students’ preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

redistribution from families with sons to families with daughters and can be implemented by a gender-specific schedule of public LTC … benefits and transfers to working children. If the policy is restricted to be gender neutral, we find that the informal care …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality …

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …