The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the …

We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …

Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic … labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. We study GBT in … family. We explore the cases of superior bargaining power for men, higher men wages and higher women productivity in home …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

remarkable rise in the share of women among unionized workers. Currently, approximately half of unionized employees in North … America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies find that unions reduce wage … inequality among men but not among women. In both countries we find striking differences between the private and public sectors …

the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …We study the effects of peer gender composition, a proxy for female-friendliness of environment, in STEM doctoral … programs on persistence and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender composition …

also do not explain much of the gender gap. On the other hand, women do less well in economics relative to other courses …Although women are underrepresented in the field of economics, many see little need for intervention, arguing that … women are inherently less interested in economics, or are less willing or able to get the math skills skills needed to do …

Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on …

context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about … research on the influence of female leadership, we find no effect of gender of the mayor on policy outcomes related to the size …

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New … relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …