Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men … or to either heterosexual or homosexual women. -- Partnership ; marriage ; sexual orientation ; academic labour markets …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree …

order gradient. They interpret this pattern as discrimination against later birth-order children in India. This paper …

; marriage ; cohabitation …

Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … where an individual competes against a target based on the previous performance of one anonymised person of unknown gender …

norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … children do not care about their hours of work at all, while women with children are significantly happier if they have a job … regardless of how many hours it entails. -- Part-time work ; happiness ; satisfaction ; working hours ; gender …

Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and … is increased if they themselves are working full-time. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of … Akerlof and Kranton (2000). -- part-time work ; happiness ; gender identity …