Women are underrepresented in economics. This underrepresentation concerns undergraduates, postgraduates, and tenured … fragmented empirical literature on women's underrepresentation in economics. The model is based on Akerlof's and Kranton's (2002 …) model of identity. The question of whether women's underrepresentation may be suboptimal and a cause for concern is also …

The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers …-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously determined. We reveal a small wage differential at the beginning of women …'s career, followed by a larger wage differential; this is partly due to a lower level of human capital investment by women and …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially just after 1970, and … the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women began to soar around the same year. We explore the … graduate women. Although the pill was approved in 1960 by the Food and Drug Administration and spread rapidly among married …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …