, albeit only for women. Women in a better than normal mood tend to exhibit mood-congruent behavior, i.e. they weight … probabilities of gains and losses relatively more optimistically. Men's probability weights are not responsive to mood state. We … find that the application of a mechanical decision criterion, such as the maximization of expected value, immunizes men …

expansion of sustainable financial services to women is best achieved in Uganda not through women-only programs, but by a broad … range of financial institutions with unbiased services to both women and men, the poor and the near-poor. NGO …, voluntary savings and individual lending to enterprising men and women have fostered sustainable farm and nonfarm business …

We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and … representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the … behavior of single women. Most remarkable is the almost continuous reduction in the labor supply reactions of married women …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job …? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings …

Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … generally lower than in the case where subjects decide for themselves only, indicating a cautious shift. The women that would …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …