We provide the first evidence on transgender earnings in the US using administrative data on over 55,000 individuals who changed their gender marker with the Social Security Administration and had gender-congruent first name changes on tax records. We validate and describe this sample which...

Este articulo plantea un esquema para definir politicas de compensacion que persigan objetivos de equidad con los criterios de la teoria de igualdad de oportunidades. Se aplica esta metodologia al caso de la brecha salarial entre mujeres y hombres para el caso de Mexico. Mediante la...

I study the effects of state-level differences in labor regulation on labor market outcomes of women in India. Using a representative sample of urban households from 2005, I find that labor regulation has a large negative effect on women's economic activity, mainly employment. My estimates...

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 competition are large and robust, the results are much...