During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market … with male sole earners who compete with women for jobs. We show that the theory's predictions for when protective …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …

, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the … action, particularly among women, and underestimate support for basic rights. We provide evidence of gender stereotyping and … gender policies that are not necessarily favored by women themselves …

the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …We study the effects of peer gender composition, a proxy for female-friendliness of environment, in STEM doctoral … programs on persistence and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender composition …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with … private sectors. In the long run, gender norms liberalized: women who received direct deposit and training became more … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages …

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or … property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion …, we distinguish between four types of women's rights--economic, political, labor, and body--and document their evolution …

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force … participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions … participation trends and a slowing of women's occupational and wage convergence with men. She considers the likelihood of a …

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … modest on average but larger for married women than for unmarried women and for those working in COVID-impacted industries …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … findings highlight that alleviating commuting costs does not uniformly boost women's labor participation, as gender roles and … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a …