Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...

Why do some economies grow faster than others? Do economies in the middle-income range face especially difficult challenges producing consistent growth? Using a transition matrix analysis on decade-level growth rates, we find that the data clearly reject the idea that middle-income economies...

- 80 % der Unternehmen hat Ende 2014 immer noch keine Frau im Vorstand - 95 % aller Vorstandsposten sind weiterhin mannlich besetzt - Unter den aktuell 36 Vorstandinnen hat keine einen Posten als Vorsitzende - 25 % der Unternehmen hat immer noch rein mannlich besetzte Aufsichtsratsgremien -...

- Die Umschreibung des Geltungsbereichs im Referentenentwurf vom 9.9.2014 zur verbindlichen Geschlechterquote von 30 % im Aufsichtsrat erfasst lediglich 101 Unternehmen. - Es sind nur 101, weil fur die sieben paritätisch besetzten Aufsichtsrate der Europäischen Aktiengesellschaften (SE), die...

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children’s nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...

This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...