provide new evidence on how women suffrage has affected government spending. Using data from the last country in Europe to … adopt suffrage, Switzerland, we demonstrate two main results. First, women suffrage has changed the scope of government much … more than its size. Women are more likely to support expenditures for public goods like environment and public transport …

, suggesting that male founders vicariously learn from their daughters about the constraints women face throughout the daughters … understanding of daughter effects in organizational contexts, and extend theory of gender homophily in organizations …

We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across …

whether development aid given for gender equality objectives leads to progress in women’s legal rights in recipient countries … gendered aid on changes in women’s rights. Our findings show that gender-focused aid has a positive impact on the de …We study the role of development cooperation in improving women’s economic rights in non-OECD countries and assess …

centuries, we conduct the first quantitative exploration of the gender gap among classical composers. We use the length of a … gender gap with a focus on the development of composers' human capital through families, teachers, and institutionalized … of teachers vary by the gender of the composer but the effects of parents do not, and while musician mothers and female …

We construct measures of gender altruism, or the propensity of an equal allocation towards the other gender, in a …) systematically lower levels of gender altruism in lake-fishing villages compared to sea-fishing villages, and (b) a higher tendency … for participants in lake-fishing villages to justify violence against women. Our findings provide experimental evidence …

physician gender. We exploit quasi-random assignment of primary care providers (PCPs) to patients and estimate the causal effect …

demographic change, poverty in old age disproportionally affects women. Given these developments, private investment is becoming … are still gender differences in investment behaviour. We conduct a thorough literature review and empirical analysis based …. Controlling for selected socio-economic variables, we find that women have significantly less holdings in risky assets. This …

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …

This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects … explaining how gender equality and economic development influence each other. In particular, the framework emphasizes the … interaction between SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 3 (good health and well-being) and SDG 4 (quality education). It then applies the …