. Betty Friedan (1963) postulated that beliefs about gender were formed by consumer good producers, but a simple model … unlikely to be universal, or even common, but gender stereotypes have a long history. To explain that history, we turn to a … childbearing, which may explain why gender-related beliefs changed radically among generations born in the 1940s …

household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender … expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic …

parameters of the best linear approximation is characterized via its support function, and limit theory is developed for the …, Ichimura, and Meghir (2007). Our results yield robust evidence of a gender wage gap, both in the 1970s and 1990s, at quantiles … evidence of a gender wage gap extends to quantiles up to the 0.7. When the assumption is further strengthened to require …

promotion standards are chosen to maximize profit, the standards will reflect gender in ways that are difficult to distinguish …

This paper presents a theory where increases in female labor force participation and reductions in the gender wage …. It generates changes in fertility, labor market attachment, and the gender wage-gap as part of a single process of social …

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 …

individuals who differ according to gender; education; race; and age. The main finding is that there are important differences …

idiosyncratic, such as changes in the gender and racial composition of a grade in a school in adjacent years. I use specification …