This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … cast doubt on a general, global relationship between gender and corruption. …

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market … institutions that are related to female lifetime work that affect the gender wage gap across countries. Using ISSP (International …

We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that … historical availability of arable land, are statistically significantly negatively related to their present levels of gender … inequality, as gauged by the United Nations Development Programme's Gender Inequality Index. …

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 …

share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender differentials in the historical period that … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …

differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …