on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on … the relationship between earnings and housework, the “economic exchange” and “gender display” hypotheses. Our … with their housework hours, independently of their partners’ earnings and their shares of couples’ total earnings, which do …

the first two empirical chapters, I examine the relationship between wives’ earnings and their time in housework, testing …’t Everything: Wives’ Earnings and Housework Time”, I use fixed-effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and … find that wives reduce housework time as their earnings rise. However, the effect is highly non-linear, with high …

are different regarding gender, status and relationship type. In this dissertation, I explain gender-based differences in … variables: gender-based homophily, status, and relationship type. In Study 1 and Study 2, I test the effect of status alone and … then the interaction between status and gender-based homophily to determine who men and women are most likely to approach …

The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force … participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and … in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This paper uses historical census data since 1951 and two recent Labor …

how men and women happiness differ. The secondary objective of the paper is to test whether gender specific factors can … happiness. Gender differences are identified and the results are consistent with the idea that labor force participation takes …

workers; or it may be the result of rewarding non-economic characteristics such as gender. Using data from the 1995 …, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model …

and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … further examine the flows in the Czech Republic by estimating gender-specific multinomial logit models to learn which factors …

explore different explanations for the lower returns among female owners, and find no evidence that the gender gap is … spend the grant on working capital and women on equipment. The gender gap is largest when male-dominated sectors are …