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 …

regression model. A new decomposition methodology is employed. Our results indicate that women receive more lenient sentences …

in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as … underrepresentation of women, namely, gender differences in overconfidence concerning past performance, in the willingness to exaggerate … past performance to the group, and in the reaction to monetary incentives. We find that men's overconfidence is the driving …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … from schooling is higher than that of men. Moreover, women's household time obligations have declined over time, raising …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …

hours of work are relatively inelastic for men, but are a little more responsive for married women and lone mothers. On the … other hand, participation is quite sensitive to taxation and benefits for women. Within this paper we present new estimates … from a discrete participation model for both married and single men based on the numerous reforms over the past two decades …

men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their earnings, and in their survival … account for the age distributions of ever and never married men and women, for the probabilities of marrying a younger bride … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …