Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews …

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender differentials in the historical period that … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …

We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the … hours, but increased housework and childcare much more than men. These gender inequalities are not driven by differences in …

, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … a brother acquire more traditional gender norms with negative consequences for their labor earnings. I provide evidence …

This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic …

industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …