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 …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age …

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 …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle …. Simple survival functions show that displaced women take longer to find a new job than comparable men. Disaggregation by age … groups reveals that these differences are driven by differential behavior of prime age women. There is no significant …