I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives to save impact long-run economic outcomes …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these … violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the research illustrates that differences in cultural norms … regarding gender roles emerge in response to specific historical situations, but tend to persist even after the historical …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage … from increased trade should lead to a reduction in the gender wage gap. We compare the change in the residual gender wage … changes in the gender wage gap that are unrelated to competitive pressures. We find that increased competition through trade …

behavior of an unchanging median voter whose gender preferences were not satisfied by the suppliers of candidates for office …

analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …