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 …

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 …

-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit … gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change …

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential … explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women … parameters suggest an explanation: women are more likely to be on the margin of giving, partly because of a less dispersed …

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 …

arguably the students who are most suited to careers in science. Indeed, the gender gap in course grades and STEM majors is …Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to … randomly assigned to professors over a wide variety of mandatory standardized courses. We focus on the role of professor gender …

Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions … in science, but the gender gap is entirely explained by fertility decisions. We find that in science overall, there is no …

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 …

The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the …