imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …

sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …

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 …

elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls' interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our …-third to the increase in child-related gender inequality. Instead, a parental benefit reform in 2007 mitigated further …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … long lasting institutions like religion, legal traditions, and family practices, also matter. This paper provides an … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …

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. …

We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In … differently if their self-reported gender matched the grammatical gender used in the instructions. The results reveal that the …