used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics currently compare with other Americans in terms of education, earnings … immigrant generations, Hispanics experience substantial improvements in education and earnings between first …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower … suggests that amenities are important for both men and women, that compensating differentials explain half of the gender pay … gap, and that there are significant output and welfare gains from eliminating gender differences. However, equal …

This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of … gender pay gap. The whole decline in the gap originates from (i) newer worker cohorts who enter the labor market with smaller …-than-average gender pay gaps and (ii) older worker cohorts who exit with higher-than-average gender pay gaps. As predicted by the model …

per year. In the decades since, the rate of gender wage convergence has stalled to less than one-third of its previous … value. An outstanding puzzle in economics is "why did gender wage convergence in the US stall?" Using an event study design … explain 94% of the reduction in the rate of gender wage convergence that is unaccounted for after controlling for changes in …

employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full …

effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …

state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs … accordance with this relative shift in applications, in 2016, the salary-offer gender gap almost disappeared …

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first … conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property … tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then randomize the use of a new revenue collection technology within one large …