import competition are concentrated on women, and gender earnings inequality increases. The paper establishes the market …This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …

the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and …

in developing economies can signal their wealth, and thereby increase their social status, by withdrawing their women …

-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 …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This …

In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … measured women's relative wage growth coincided with growth of wage inequality within-gender, and attribute the measured gender …

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 …