inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …

lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. -- Glass ceiling ; experimental economics ; personality …