particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender obesity gaps on average exceed 10 percentage … of relevant controls, gender obesity gaps are only associated to measures of female empowerment in the MENA region but … national parliament) predicts a 0.2 (0.09) percentage point decrease in gender gaps in obesity in the MENA region …

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a … small, though important, part of the standardized gender pay gap …

We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …

Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …

that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the …‐time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and women …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994-2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …