decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …

We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …

Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods … are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according to which education is worth what it costs the state to provide it …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

's substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …

young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial …