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 …

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the … causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their …

for men and women to get part-time jobs. To assess this question, I first analyze the hiring decisions of recruiters who … screen jobseekers on an online recruiting platform and estimate contact penalties for men and women seeking part-time jobs …. Second, I relate the number of hours advertised in online job postings to firms' confidentially reported gender preferences …

whether this depends on the gender of a jobseeker. First, I relate the number of hours stated on job advertisements to the … gender preferences of firms indicated in a confidential online form. Second, I analyze hiring decisions of recruiters who …-time workers and that the part-time penalty is much more pronounced for men than for women, even when comparing applicants for the …