crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers … work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the …

-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male part-timers, female full-timers and female part-timers) is considered, and … and workplace characteristics are shown to explain much of the earnings gaps examined. Within gender groups, the striking … difference between full and part-time employees is that full-timers work in higher paying occupations than do part-timers. Also …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …

/her before the worker decides on whether to work long hours and signal his/her commitment. Using the model, we show that under a …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

redistribution from families with sons to families with daughters and can be implemented by a gender-specific schedule of public LTC … benefits and transfers to working children. If the policy is restricted to be gender neutral, we find that the informal care …

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 …

is a gender difference in the reference point, explaining the gender difference in risk aversion observed using … average have a significantly lower reference point. By acknowledging the reference point as a potential source of gender …

We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …

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