This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the … regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important …

women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double …Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … difference analysis using data surrounding the period.We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

profession: their participation in a session at the American Economic Association annual meeting. We examine the gender of … participants on the program at the 1985-2010 meetings to determine how women's participation at this important venue has changed … over the past 25 years. The results show that women's participation has increased over time, particularly since 2002 …

psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century …

women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report …, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …

differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different …

influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject …, albeit of a much smaller magnitude, is also found among women. We show that this is likely driven by the widowhood effect—women …

reduced the prevalence of stereotypes associated with jobs in science and gender differences in abilities, but it made the … underrepresentation of women in science more salient. Using machine learning methods, we leverage the diversity of role model profiles to … influence female students' choice of study. Results suggest that emphasis on the gender theme is less important to the …

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are … richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women's disenfranchisement carries a societal cost …. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male median voter when women are disenfranchised. Next we show that, as …