While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …

. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … women in lowers ranks. …

job dissatisfaction, particularly amongst men. While women who experience gender discrimination are somewhat more likely …

We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …-driven downward pressure on women’s wages in low-paying occupations, and fully counteracted it in high-paying occupations. The paper …

women. This is an approach that has not previously been explored in the relevant literature. The findings for the full …

shift dramatically away from women and towards men when firms are seeking older (as opposed to younger) workers. While some … timing of the shift suggests that young women's movement into childbearing also plays a role. …

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of … 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school … reductions observed for women with school-age children being attributable to additional child care responsibilities (the "COVID …