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 …

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 … selection over time for both women and men and show the rising effect of selection for women in recent years. Returns to … education diverge for women and men over this period in the selection-adjusted results but converge in the OLS results, while …

, 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 …

and lower rates of non-marital sexual relationships for women but not for men. … from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the theoretical prediction that payment of bride price will be … associated with fewer non-marital sexual relationships for women. The data show a robust association between bride price payment …

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 …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men …

the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …