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 …

Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory … predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force …

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …

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

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

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we find that women are less likely than men to have access to any … young women are more likely to have access to specifically designated paid parental leave, even in part-time jobs. Both …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together …-defined population. Our results indicate that women have lower probabilities of promotion and expected promotion than do men but that …

Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … aptitudes, as captured by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes, predict the occupational choices of men and women in … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …

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 …

We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …