when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … women. The evidence is suggestive that female mayors are less able at fostering cooperation among men, or alternatively …, that men are more reluctant to be headed by women. Other interpretations receive less support in the data. Our results may …

Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women … women. In a standard decomposition, gender differences in applications can explain more than 70 percent of the residual …

expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data … as an instrument for own BMI to address potential endogeneity of BMI in hours worked. We find that White women with … higher BMI work more. This is true for both single and married White women. Results for other groups of women and men produce …

women are more likely to experience reductions in hours worked and earnings. This greater adverse impact on women's working … hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater … propensity to run a non-employing business and to work part-time. However, lower attitude to risk in women is associated with …

initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …

public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and … earners are found to be related to there being a scarcity of senior women in high skilled, white-collar occupations …

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …