outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls. This change may be plausible in light of the reversal of the gender … the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates and higher sex (boy …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … also decreases in occupational segregation within cohorts. Reductions in segregation were correlated with education, with …

, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence … suggests that changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and in labor … convergence of the unexplained gender pay gap …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …