. 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 …

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 …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that relate to differences between men and women at an earlier stage in their …

single households. In the model, labor supply of married women reacts positively and relatively strongly to minimum wages …, in our baseline experiments, average labor supply of married women increases by 3-5%, whereas hours supplied by married …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent … country studies find export led growth in middle and low income countries is associated with improvements in women …