promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of …

Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research … universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge … uncomplicated and inexpensive interventions can substantially increase the interest of women to major in economics …

impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being … impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

acquisition and expectations, but these results are markedly different for young men and young women. Shortly after completing the …-run effects on labor market outcomes for males. While these effects seem to dissipate in the long run, employed men are … substantially more likely to be searching for another job. On the other hand, women experience improved labor market outcomes in the …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial … productivity, we find that men in the top three quintiles of the initial productivity distribution are made better off by a …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …

BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at … levels far below the clinical threshold of "obesity" or even "overweight". For men, our main estimates suggest a reasonably …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show …