question has important implications for policy measures that could be taken to improve women's lives. …

-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and … cognitive abilities, and especially after the large-scale higher education expansion since 1999, women have outperformed men in … younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 …

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …

. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship … of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …

Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …