Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …. Parental nonfinancial inputs, unwanted girls, and patrilineal states are important for explaining the findings. …

We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …

extends to various aspects of self-reported job satisfaction, by gender and personality traits as per the Big-Five framework …

This paper employs an online real-effort experiment to investigate gender disparities in the selection of individuals … of AI assistance. Surprisingly, the introduction of AI eliminates an 11-percentage-point gender gap, between men and … women in our competitive scenario. We also discuss how the gender gap in tournament entry appears to be contingent on …

, and whether these effects differ by gender. Using detailed students' data from an Italian university, combined with … students who acquire citizenship, particularly among males, leading to a reduction in gender gaps. Moreover, gender gaps are … smaller and show a more pronounced decrease with citizenship as gender inequality in countries increases. Results are …

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …

This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences …, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to … heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings penalties of 9% in comparison to heterosexual men, and bisexual women faced …