Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …

Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A … consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects … competitive entry. We find that when women are guaranteed equal representation among winners, more women and fewer men enter …

The question of the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on relative economic outcomes for blacks and women has … discrimination/equal pay laws reduced the relative employment of both black women and white women …

We provide an overview of research that indicates that older women face unique challenges and opportunities with …, showing that poverty increases with age for women due to older women often outliving their spouses and becoming widowed. We … discuss research that shows that women benefit more than men from working longer. We then note that older women face …

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender …

We examine whether exposure of men to women in a traditionally male-dominated environment can change attitudes about … assigned female recruits to some squads but not others during boot camp. We find that living and working with women for 8 weeks …. Contrary to the predictions of many policymakers, we find no evidence that integrating women into squads hurt male recruits …

, while women face an additional exogenous source of health shocks due to menstruation, the signal extraction based on … earnings cost for women associated with menstruation. We find that higher absenteeism induced by the 28-day cycle explains 11 …

aptitudes, as captured by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes, predict the occupational choices of men and women in …