Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses … individual subjective well-being from the intra-family perspective and investigates whether the gender satisfaction gap could be … caused, among all, by a mismatch between the socially imposed patriarchal family gender roles and the actually performed ones …

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses … individual subjective well-being from the intra-family perspective and investigates whether the gender satisfaction gap could be … caused, among all, by a mismatch between the socially imposed patriarchal family gender roles and the actually performed ones …

techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …

, especially for women. Furthermore, we conclude that the gender gap in underemployment is mainly due to the different distribution …This paper focuses on the impact that gender segregation in the labour market exerts on the underemployment gender gap … of male and female workers across occupations and industries. Additionally, the different impact by gender that working …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

also has a persistent effect on gender equality by empowering women’s careers …The gender education gap has been narrowing worldwide in recent decades. We provide the first causal evidence on how … foreign direct investment (FDI) affects the gender education gap. By exploiting the quasi-exogenous deregulation of FDI entry …