-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 … gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change …

(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …

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 …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …

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 …

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

differential between violent crime cases with female versus male victims. The inclusion of women also increased the likelihood of … jurors on the seated jury sharply increased conviction rates for violent crimes against women versus men …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women’s education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This …

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 …