Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

international trade and the environment with a focus on recent work and methods. We discuss the literature linking trade to local …

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

panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender … composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …

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 …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential … explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women … parameters suggest an explanation: women are more likely to be on the margin of giving, partly because of a less dispersed …

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …

Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to … randomly assigned to professors over a wide variety of mandatory standardized courses. We focus on the role of professor gender …. Our results suggest that while professor gender has little impact on male students, it has a powerful effect on female …

Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions … in science, but the gender gap is entirely explained by fertility decisions. We find that in science overall, there is no …