This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is … benefits of being elected are enjoyed solely by male leaders. However, this gender difference disappears with repeated …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and … firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education …

Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and … strong trend of changing gender composition of household-representative respondents toward more females. Second, we estimate … the impact of the changing gender composition on Blau and Kahn's decomposition. We find that a non-ignorable portion of …

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical …

speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 …, we show that women are less likely to be employed in jobs using competitive compensation. The portion of the gender wage … gap explained by gender segregation in compensation schemes is small in the NLSY79 but somewhat larger in the NLSY97 …

This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labor at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …