women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study …

The economics literature on gender has expanded considerably in recent years, fueled in part by new sources of data …, including from experimental studies of gender differences in preferences and other traits. At the same time, economists have … culture and social norms. Despite these innovations much of the economics of gender has been left behind, and still employs a …

-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … women's STEM avoidance, but male low achievement has been less-studied and tends to be attributed to behavior problems and …

The educational attainment of young women now exceeds that of young men in most of the developed world, and women … increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to … women from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), I find evidence consistent with other …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … experience (a desire for change and variety) and positively related to conscientiousness for both men and women. Selection into …

gender has significant effects on the labor supply of both mothers and father, and these effects are opposite at the two ends … gender effects on the relative bargaining power of the mother and father. No evidence of improved maternal bargaining power … suggest gender differences in child production functions. -- child gender ; parenthood ; labor supply ; time allocation …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …