lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … many hours they work. Life satisfaction is influenced only by whether or not they have a job. For women we are confronted … with a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether …

part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is …

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered … working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of … abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …

distribution. For a sub-sample of continuously partnered men and women, both partners' origin-family sizes significantly affect …