-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …

2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have …Using data from the urban household surveys of the China Household Income Project for the years 1995, 2002, 2007 and …. Based on new data for 2013, however, we find that from 2007 to 2013 the gender wage gap narrowed. For 2013 we estimate the …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

The within-firm gender wage gap plays an important role in understanding the overall gender gap in the labor market …. This paper describes how parenthood is associated with the within-firm gender gap using a unique personnel dataset from a …. Our study highlights the importance of internal gender segregation in understanding gender wage differentials …

household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We … have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural …

patterns. China's rapid urbanization raises important questions about the changing nature of gender asymmetries in the … household division of labour. Using 24-hour time module data from the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate time allocation … while traditional gendered time-use patterns persist among rural households, urbanization and migration reduces gender …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …

This paper documents and analyzes the gender gap in the online credit market. Using data from Renrendai, a leading peer …-to-peer lending platform in the People's Republic of China (PRC), we show that lending to female borrowers is associated with better … their male peers. However, despite the higher creditworthiness, we don't find any measurable gender impact on funding …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …