Using detailed administrative records, we find that, on average, women receive lighter sentences in comparison with men …

We document wide and persistent variation in women's representation and success across graduate programs in economics … compare (anonymized) departments on outcomes for women relative to men graduating from the same program. We then conduct … higher outcomes for women also hire more women faculty, facilitate advisor-student contact, provide collegial research …

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees …

questions that measure knowledge of basic financial concepts, women are less likely than men to answer correctly and more likely … to indicate that they do not know the answer. In addition, women give themselves lower scores on financial literacy self …-assessments than men. Both young and old women show low levels of financial literacy. Moreover, women for whom financial knowledge is …

allocations is not rejected in models that allow more than two household members to have agency in decision-making. In contrast … decision-making within complex households.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of …

variation in legal changes to women's property rights, we show that better property rights for women are associated with a … more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that … increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this …

Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine … 2009-2016 to test whether women are more sensitive to grades than men, and whether the gender composition of major …, faculty gender composition, and major returns have little effect on major switching behaviors, and that women and men are …