reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …

, particularly for second-generation men with children. Our findings suggest that broader cultural factors do influence the gender …There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …

find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

when we control for wage offers and family formation decisions, as well as when we control for the emigration rate from the … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … schooling and labor supply, although fertility effects show more persistence. -- Immigration ; second generation ; gender …

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in … groups, education groups and mothers of small children are analyzed separately. -- labor supply ; married women ; wages …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …. -- occupational segregation ; gender ; discrimination …

important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap … surveys like the March Current Population Survey annual supplement. -- gender ; microeconomic data collection ; human capital …