In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects …

period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …

a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type … find very high levels of within-group inequality in the distributions of paid and unpaid work-time for men and women, a … inequality in the distribution of total time spent at work, we show that gender plays an important role in determining the …

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … groups of women and men are compared. We use the national representative Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey for 2008 … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not …

Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence … score matching and a reweighting technique to directly compare men and women who are displaced from similar jobs and firms …. Our results show that after a mass layoff, women's earnings losses are about 35% higher than men's, with the gap …

particularly hard. Women were slightly more likely to lose their job than men, and those who remained employed were more likely to … inability to outsource. We find that men increased their participation in housework and childcare slightly, but most of the … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …

We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between … fathers' labor supply is unchanged. Consequently, the reform decreased the monthly gender pay gap by 6 percent, generating …