When limited to heterosexual marriage, agents of different genders are not guaranteed to harvest the same payoff even conditional on having the same type, even if all other factors, such as search costs or the distribution of partner types, are same across genders. If same-sex marriage is...

This chapter examines a proposal to recast Australia’s federal discrimination laws by doing away with the current fragmented approach by which there are separate legislative regimes responding to sex, race, age and disability discrimination and instead replace them with a combined “Equality...

This paper investigates the implications of the unequal division of the domestic labor in men and women participation and incentives to exert effort in competitive relations, in which the labor market is the main example. We found that moderate levels of affirmative action (bias in favor of...