inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

Papal States gender inequality was particularly severe, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany experienced a relatively stronger female … the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality … administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK academic economics departments in research …-intensive universities. Our evidence indicates that, as in the US, women in economics are under-represented and are paid less than men. The …

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. …

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …

This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division … and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans who were socialised in a more gender egalitarian culture to … West Germans socialised in a gender-traditional culture. Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on …

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 …