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 …

evidence in both data sources that women faculty perform significantly more service than men, controlling for rank, race …

There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies … oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40 … differences: men tend to inherit larger sums than women during their working life. Women often outlive their male partners, thus …

children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …

underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County … driven by Black women. Rather than comorbidity or aging, the Black female bias is associated with poverty and channeled by …

longevity advantage for the whole century. Unlike most mortality databases of this period, genealogical data allows analysis of …

In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians …' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient … referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily …

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 …

findings are consistent with the convergence of gender earning gap has occurred mainly due to women's responses to changing … patterns of returns to human capital investment and changes in real hourly earnings, account for changes in women's and men … linking these factors and demonstrating that they have significant roles to women's lifetime earnings but not to men's. These …

pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …