, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work …Men in low-income countries invest considerably more years in school than women. From low- to high-income countries …, I assess in how far this decline may be related to the fact that from low- to high-income countries, women's hours in …

gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively …This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … on their physical endowments. We prove the existence of a competitive equilibrium where the gender pay gap arises. The … an ineffective way to reduce the gender pay gap …