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 …

decrease in the female labor force participation rate over the last two decades. Moreover, existing analysis and the anecdotal … matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the …

study the effect of several measures of female empowerment including female labour market participation on gender obesity … runs indeed from empowerment, proxy it by both labour market and political participation to gender obesity gaps and not …The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are …

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 …

Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …, those assumptions are specially tenuous because of high female non-participation and because selection could be different in …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

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 …

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 …

Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full …