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 …

We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining … information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The … acceptance of gender inequality than in branches located in regions with a lower acceptance. The results are similar for …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap …

matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the …

-term perspective of decentralized institutional change in which gender-biased inheritance systems emerged as a defensive measure to …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …

share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …

investigate how numerous variables relate to preferences for egalitarian gender norms in rural Bangladesh …