towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated … of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …

techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The … structural parameters of the post-double selection LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household …

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 … gender education gap for the exposed cohorts. This finding is robust to various identification challenges. We further show …

The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using … between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender and ownership status based sub-group analyses suggest the inverse … relationship to be stronger for male union members and those in the private sector. Gender group size based analysis reveals a …

We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …

cross-sectional dependence, to inspect the contributions of gender equality and factor income distribution to an economy … evidence, combined with the stylized facts about institutional and economic inequality, suggests that the impact of gender and …

macroeconomic model featuring heterogeneity in gender, marital status, childcare needs, and human capital. Our quantitative analysis … within-household insurance; ii) result in a widening of the gender wage gap throughout the recovery; and iii) contribute to a … weakening of the gender norms that currently produce a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in home work and childcare. …

. Second, I relate the number of hours advertised in online job postings to firms' confidentially reported gender preferences … evidence points to bias due to gender stereotypes. …

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 … same position. Hence, the gender differences cannot be explained by differences in job or workplace characteristics …