This article first parses the multiple overlapping definitions of discrimination, including distinctions between group and individual discrimination and between segregation and discrimination in pay. The article then summarizes the major economic models of discrimination, particularly Becker's...

This article engages with the ways in which the assessment of damages for personal injuries reflects deeply gendered assumptions about women's and men's roles. It arose out of a decision of the NSW Court of Appeal (which later went to the High Court of Australia) in NSW Insurance Ministerial...

Historically, educational gender gaps in Bangladesh persisted as households invested more in the education of boys than girls. Recent reports, however, claim that the educational gender gaps have reversed in favor of girls. Using nationally representative data and advanced empirical methods,...

This paper studies the economics of education and gender differentials.The issue of Universalisation of Elementary education among the north-eastern states of India using household level data from the 1993-94 NSS surveys is examined, particularly in respect of the status of school enrollment of...

The metaphor of “care drain” has been created as a womanly parallel to the “brain drain” idea. Just as “brain drain” suggests that the skilled migrants are an economic loss for the sending country, “care drain” describes the migrant women hired as care workers as a loss of care...

This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in preferences. The main issue considered in this paper is whether gender...

The thesis of Keeping Feminism in Its Place is that women are being "domesticated" in the legal academy. This occurs in two ways, one theoretical and one very practical: denigration of feminism on the theoretical level and sex segregation of men and women on the experiential level intertwine to...

Discrimination is a pervasive aspect of modern society and human relations. Statistical discrimination theory suggests that profit-maximizing employers should use all the information about job candidates, including information about group membership (e.g., race or gender), to make accurate...

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature suggests different explanations for the existence and persistence of group inequality. This survey highlights such differences and describes in these contexts the effects of...