extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … from schooling is higher than that of men. Moreover, women's household time obligations have declined over time, raising …

Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this … in teachers' awareness and familiarity with the program and its rules, and in effort and teaching methods. Women though … were more pessimistic about the effectiveness of teachers' performance pay and more realistic than men about their …

important both at the lower and upper end of the wage distribution for men while women at the upper end of the distribution … suffer a wage penalty due to BMI. Height has been a significant factor affecting men’s productivity but not women. The … for the less able. In addition, the returns to schooling of women are higher than men. The results have important …