outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls. This change may be plausible in light of the reversal of the gender … the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates and higher sex (boy …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … also decreases in occupational segregation within cohorts. Reductions in segregation were correlated with education, with …

, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence … suggests that changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and in labor … convergence of the unexplained gender pay gap …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education.We find … considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap …