substantial heterogeneity in preferences, we find that women, on average, have a higher willingness to pay for jobs with greater … attributes are found to play a role in major choice, with women exhibiting greater sensitivity to nonpecuniary job attributes in …

congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender … women's over a large range of wages. However, women's marginal willingness to pay more than doubles after the birth of a …

congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender … women's over a large range of wages. However, women's marginal willingness to pay more than doubles after the birth of a …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since …, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law mandating equal treatment of men and women. This paper uses a new …

This article uses data from the Kauffman Firm Survey to explore, by gender, the relationship of start up capital for … with prior research, women-owned firms start with smaller amounts of capital than men-owned firms. Our findings also … indicate that women launched their firms with larger amounts of owner-provided equity and dramatically smaller amounts of …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …

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

Male backlash, which we define as a hostile response to female empowerment in a gender biased society, drives crime … against women. We provide evidence to support this idea. Combining survey data with administrative records on rapes, indecent … assaults and domestic violence in India, we show that a smaller gender gap in earning potential is associated with more rapes …