prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …

share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk …

promoting gender equality in education and health. However, progress has not been as remarkable in advancing women’s rights on … understanding the social norms governing gender roles in society and legislation that can facilitate or impede women’s asset … asset ownership and control, which is critical for securing gender equity in economic participation and opportunity, and …

tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. … Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by … recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … increased childcare needs during school closures; in Nigeria, mothers of school-age children experience the largest declines in … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

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

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we … timing in women’s spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …