There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at … lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women at a lower rate than men. Relative to the …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of … with within-couple age difference, but this is due to the fact that women with differently-aged spouses work more hours not …

segregation where women have limited access to high wage occupations. This paper first defines a class of segregation indexes that …

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical … week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to … from the literature on developing countries, we show that after a first-born boy the probability that women have more …

Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force …. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … to change asymmetrically for women versus men. …

and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s …