market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …

that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India …Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are …

. Although the percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women and the representation of women on faculties have increased over time …, economics still lags many other fields. Previous research has documented gender gaps in tenure, promotion and publication, some … of which have narrowed over time. This study examines another aspect of women's representation within the economics …

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 …

workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate … 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 …

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 …