production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate … work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this …

Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is … slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This assessment examines where we are in terms of gender equality. It … of policies and interventions targeting gender inequality. In doing so, I provide the foundations against which the …

-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …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 …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further …

which family units (and women within families) remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the … industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …

There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies … oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40 … differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …

labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … of housework but in contrast to the US where women increase their contribution to non-market work when they actually have …This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … explain about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine …

We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in …

In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians …' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient … referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily …