gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … unexplained gender gap, mainly in the upper parts of the wage distribution. Finally, results suggest that employers place greater … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap …

, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …

Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …

, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …

Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …

Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-field experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …

Male backlash, which we define as a hostile response to female empowerment in a gender biased society, drives crime … assaults and domestic violence in India, we show that a smaller gender gap in earning potential is associated with more rapes … and indecent assaults. This relationship is exacerbated in states with high gender bias, pointing away from increased …

unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on gender inequality in these outcomes … industries for men and women may take an important part in explaining these gender gaps. Our estimates also point to country …