The effort to close the gender gaps in employment is one of the priorities worldwide to help
address the disparity that exists between men and women in terms of rights and …

This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labor supply in OECD
countries. A number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family …

Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a
significant share of economic activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women …

We obtain a model-driven measure of gender norms on intra-household financial decision
making by leveraging dramatic variation across Italian cohorts and regions in the gender of …

What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the
workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? We …

A vast literature on gender wage gaps has examined the importance of selection into
employment. However, most analyses have focused only on female labour force …

Population aging in developed and developing economies has led to increasing number of
older persons in need of care, posing a challenge to the social arrangements of care and …

We study the role of managers' gender attitudes in shaping gender inequality within the
workplace. Using Danish registry data, we exploit the birth of a daughter as opposed to a …

This paper explores how the parenthood wage penalty is partially explained by an
increased within-couple gap in job uniqueness (ie, the within-establishment substitutability …

This paper shows that decisions regarding intra-household specializations are determined
by gender norms rather than standard economic incentives. To test theoretical predictions of …