(i.e., labor market discrimination). This paper explores the determinants of the gender pay gap and argues for the …Empirical research on gender pay gaps has traditionally focused on the role of gender-specific factors, particularly … gender differences in qualifications and differences in the treatment of otherwise equally qualified male and female workers …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap …

employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full …

gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …

This paper uses micro-data to analyze international differences in the gender pay gap among a sample of ten … industrialized countries. Empirical research on gender pay gaps has traditionally focused on the role of gender-specific factors …, particularly gender differences in qualifications and differences in the treatment of otherwise equally qualified male and female …

, we find robust evidence that that the laws reduced the gender pay gap between men and women by approximately 30 percent …. There is suggestive evidence that higher female salaries contributed to the narrowing of the gender gap. The reduction in … the gender gap is primarily in universities where faculty are unionized …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …

year on housing relative to single women. The gender gap grows significantly larger after accounting for mortgage borrowing … returns can be explained by gender differences in the location and timing of transactions. The remaining gap arises primarily … from gender differences in execution prices: data on repeat sales reveal that women buy the same property for approximately …