In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … alters the schooling distributions of men and women differently, thus the average causal effect we estimate puts a higher …

A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the … men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …. Our results suggest that the presence of men affects the performance of female runners differentially across ability, with …

labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has …

of gender segmentation that characterizes the Turkish labor market. Findings based on the instrumental variable approach …

tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than … against women, but compete against women who are thought to compete. The behavior of men seems primarily to be influenced by …

. -- men and women-economists ; research fields ; gender segregation ; path-dependence ; tobit and probit models …This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty …. Further, by using Ph.D. cohorts, we document how gender segregation across fields has evolved over the last four decades …

. Calibration to US data suggests that the bargaining position of husbands has deteriorated with the closing of the gender gap in …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … investments that are efficient. Given that the gender wage gap narrows with the level of education, women's labor-market return …

The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on … gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look … experience), estimating comparable earnings equations by gender at each point in time. We consider the effects of sample …