Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value?. We find that …

immigrants to the U.S. during the 1970-2019 period. We measure gender discrimination in the countries of origin using the Women … of women immigrating to the U.S. from that country by 1.7 percentage points, on average. This large effect of gender …We use data on international migration to study the causal effect of gender discrimination on the sex-ratio of …

20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to Germany from 18 source countries in the …

1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage … and unobservable characteristics of the individuals using the panel feature of the data with a fixed effects model. We …

Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper … studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits … seven members increases the number of women promoted to full professor by 14%. Conversely, when committee members decide on …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …