-sectional data arises from offsetting ageing and cohort effects. In these countries more recent birth cohorts have lower levels of …

The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing … survey data across time we can separate birth cohort and ageing effects. In doing so we find literacy skills decline with age … skills with age at lower percentiles, which suggests that higher initial literacy moderates the influence of cognitive ageing. …

important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of …

Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …

old age by investigating the role of adult children's gender in the context of Thailand, an aging Asian country with no …

ageing of the workforce occurred more quickly in occupations that were initially more routine-intensive, as the share of …

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …

This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …