year after the first child is born, mothers' annual earnings drop by 11% while men's remain unchanged. The gender gap is …

year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …

education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over …In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender … assumptions: (1) the demand for brain increases both within and across education groups; and (2) women have less brawn than men …

Aspirations and plans for the future can influence investments made today. Gender gaps in these views can perpetuate … gender gaps in outcomes. In this paper, we explore how gender gaps in aspirations and expectations are affected by the local … labor market. Using a national longitudinal survey from Japan, we begin by documenting large gender differences in …

on mortality, fertility, health or education. …

across six occupational categories. We randomly assigned names to the resumes that convey race and gender but for which a … from particular race and gender groups …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …

region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis. …

We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low …-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity … of human capital available in an economy. Second, gender gaps in the labor market impede the development of new ideas by …