Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the … appropriate pay for women compared to men may explain these findings. In order to capture the spatial variation in such norms, we … for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage …

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value?. We find that …

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value?. We find that …

) identity economics approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family … region, Muslim women do not participate in the labour market less than non-Muslim women, whereas those with strong …

wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More …

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women …'s subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women … controls as well as assess the sensitivity of our results to alternative estimation methods. We find that women who face any …

conventional unit root tests in modified forms can be used to construct early warning indicators for bubbles in financial markets … 1871, they are able to signal most of the consensus bubbles, defined as stock market booms for example by the IMF, and they … applications using equity prices in the UK, Finland and China as the methods seem to be able to signal most of the consensus …