Why Should Women Get Less? Evidence on the Gender Pay Gap from Multifactorial Survey Experiments

The Gender Pay Gap

Wages and Gender Composition: Why do Women's Jobs Pay Less?

Wages and Gender Composition: Why do Women's Jobs Pay Less? Author(s): David A. Macpherson and Barry T. Hirsch Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 426-471 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2535151 . Accessed...

Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in New Zealand

Why women participate less in civic activity: Evidence from Mali∗

Civic engagement fails to foster democratic representation and accountability when women or other marginalized groups face barriers to participation, as they do in many developing countries. Rather than flattening access to participation, a randomly assigned civic education course in Mali widened the gender gap when it increased civic activity among men while decreasing that among women. Qualit...

Are Women Less Selfish than Men?: Evidence from Dictator Experiments

Research in social sciences other than economics indicates substantial differences in behaviour between men and women. The general conclusion drawn from this work is that women will be more socially-orientated (sel ̄ess), and men more individually-orientated (sel®sh). This paper reports the results of a double-anonymous dictator experiment designed to permit the emergence of basic gender differe...