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 …

) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has … ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …

BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at … levels far below the clinical threshold of "obesity" or even "overweight". For men, our main estimates suggest a reasonably …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging -- one with higher subjective well-being for men …

acquisition and expectations, but these results are markedly different for young men and young women. Shortly after completing the …-run effects on labor market outcomes for males. While these effects seem to dissipate in the long run, employed men are … substantially more likely to be searching for another job. On the other hand, women experience improved labor market outcomes in the …

Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this … paper I examine how individual performance in a real work place is affected by a competitive environment and by its gender … ranking, winning rate and awarded prize did not differ by gender nor between teachers in competition groups with only female …

Globally, men and women face markedly different risks of obesity. In all but of handful of (primarily Western European …) countries, obesity is more prevalent among women than men. In this paper, we examine several potential explanations for this … phenomenon. We analyze differences between men and women in reports and effects of the proximate causes of obesity -- physical …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …