important stages are the initial college major choice and the college-to-career transition. Men are far more likely than women … job, accounting for 44% of the overall gap. Women who start in STEM majors are also less likely to graduate in STEM … (accounting for 16%), while the gap in pre-college STEM-readiness is a small factor (8%). Women attend college at much higher …

We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of … misreporting accounts for the discontinuity in the distribution of women's relative incomes just below the point where a woman …

women and for reducing inequality in the Mediterranean countries and specifically in Egypt. It seeks to provide a policy …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …