This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in … the female brain drain ratio. This is consistent with, at low levels of women's rights, prohibitively high costs of …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad. …

various channels. Men's migration may lead to women taking over household decisions regarding education expenditures … changes in women's decision making is expected to operate via permanent migration when the men are absent. The effect of … the case for households with temporary migrants, suggesting that women's decision participation decreases gender …

competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the ….Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs. This has been the … case throughout the past decade, even as college-educated women have increased their share of the overall workforce.Women …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …