Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap. …

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 …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the …Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point … where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper …

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … women transform their characteristics into wealth. …

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …

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 … segregation was reduced over the 1970-2009 period was through the entry of new cohorts of women, presumably better prepared than …