I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among graduate women, FiF graduates earn 8 ….3% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we find no such difference. A … decomposition of the difference between FiF and non-FiF graduate women reveals that prior academic attainment, whether they attended …

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the … causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their …

for men and women to get part-time jobs. To assess this question, I first analyze the hiring decisions of recruiters who … screen jobseekers on an online recruiting platform and estimate contact penalties for men and women seeking part-time jobs … than for women. Differences in job or workplace characteristics cannot explain these results. Instead, the preponderance of …

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become … consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution. We …

is improved by a widening of women's labor market opportunities as indicated by a rise in their share of employment, but … rises in women's share of employment is consistent with improvement in the average quality of the workforce when talented … women's entry to it is eased. That this effect is dampened by patriarchal cultural norms is consistent with their promoting …