lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

In the last decade, the proportion and academic performance of women who pursue university degrees has increased … awarded to women has remained between 30% and 35% during 2001-2018 in the U.S. (Siegfried, 2019). In a recent work by Lundberg … and Stearns (2019), they show that the gender gap worsens as women economists progress in their professional careers in …

This paper explores whether the welfare of women increased following the extension of women's rights between 1960s and … satisfaction of women of childbearing age. Birth control rights also increased women's investment in education, probability of … working and income. Other women's rights have proved less beneficial. Mutual consent divorce laws decreased women's welfare …

This paper conducts a cross-sectional empirical research aimed at documenting that couples with women as main earners … with women as main earners in comparison to couples with men as main earners and couples with equal-earners. We undertake a …