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

This paper examines the trends in the well-being of American women over the last 25 years, a time of significant … changes in the relative economic status of women and in the labor market as a whole. A broad range of indicators are … considered to capture changes in women's well-being in the family as well as in the labor market. For virtually all age and …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

find evidence that region, gender and beliefs predict behavior. Broadly, our findings align with typical relationships …

We study the effect of a recent expansion in India's National Old Age Pension Scheme on elderly well-being. Estimates … lower education but no effect of the employment of similar women. Pension raised family expenditures, lowering poverty, and …

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 …