In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … preferences of spouses diverge, and support the view that empowering women in developing countries should lead to more future …

The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate to charitable causes but men are … using UK micro-data on individual giving to charitable causes. Results indicate that most women are more generous than men …

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

equally effective tools for reducing non-employment. However, non-employment among women with young children is more …

hours of work are relatively inelastic for men, but are a little more responsive for married women and lone mothers. On the … other hand, participation is quite sensitive to taxation and benefits for women. Within this paper we present new estimates …

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …

Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We … on various aspects of personal, financial, and mental wellbeing. The effect is larger for women who have to wait longer … to reach their SPA, and smaller for women with a partner (compared to those without a partner). The effect of the reform …