This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage …. It generates changes in fertility, labor market attachment, and the gender wage-gap as part of a single process of social …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by … missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or … equalized across occupations and set to a relatively low value (i.e. Health care support), the gender gap would fall by more …

favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …-promotion opportunities, this self-promotion gap may contribute to persistent gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes …

the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

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 …

children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the …

Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …

The gender unemployment gap, the difference between female and male unemployment rates, was positive until the early … for most of the closing of the gender unemployment gap. Evidence from nineteen OECD countries is consistent with this … finding. We show that gender differences in industry composition are the main source of the cyclicality of the unemployment …