of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women …'s awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects … that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality …

We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of … misreporting accounts for the discontinuity in the distribution of women's relative incomes just below the point where a woman … outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …

number of children and marital status were associated with women's household retirement savings at young and mid … retirement account wealth. Results from regression analyses revealed variation in women's household financial preparation for …-adulthood. Several household-level indicators of retirement preparation were considered: desire to save for retirement, retirement …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all 65 local financial advisory … firms in Hong Kong, China. At financial planning firms, but not at securities firms, women were more likely than men to …