promotion standards are chosen to maximize profit, the standards will reflect gender in ways that are difficult to distinguish …

Rising wage inequality within-gender since 1975 has created the illusion of rising wage equality between genders. In … selection bias using both parametric and semi-parametric versions of the Roy model, we show how the earning power of the median …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using … Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality … in earnings is due to children. The arrival of children creates a gender gap in earnings of around 20% in the long run …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and … likely to hold the view. As a benchmark, classmates' average gender attitudes have a similar effect size. We find that …

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 …

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and gender of their employees in job ads. We study … the interaction of advertised requests for age and gender on one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that firms …' explicit gender requests shift dramatically away from women and towards men when firms are seeking older (as opposed to younger …

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 …

, we find robust evidence that that the laws reduced the gender pay gap between men and women by approximately 30 percent …. There is suggestive evidence that higher female salaries contributed to the narrowing of the gender gap. The reduction in … the gender gap is primarily in universities where faculty are unionized.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working …