models are estimated for women and men separately, with mother's education as an instrument to account for the potential … endogeneity in income. Results suggest that the optimal own BMI is 27.4 and 22.7 for men and women, respectively. The annual value … of reaching optimal weight ranges from $3,235 for underweight women to $32,378 for obese women and from $19,088 for …

During the 1980s, the wage gap between white women and white men in the US declined by approximately 1 percentage point … white women and white men would have been achieved as early as 2017 …

significantly increases the labor force participation rate of women and the employment rates of both men and women. Our results … unpaid agricultural work into operating small agricultural enterprises, while women take more unpaid jobs, especially in … agriculture, and operate more small businesses in all sectors. Both men and women are more likely to work in wage jobs in the …

arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment … RCTs showed moderate success in encouraging more women to major in economics. We speculate on the reasons for differential …

-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women …'s Ladder - women are either similar to or 'happier' than men. This finding is insensitive to which controls are included and …. This is the true paradox - morbidity doesn't match mortality by gender. Women say they are less cheerful and calm, more …