How Women Affect Public Policy

TL;DR: In this article, a field experiment in which graders at one university were randomly assigned students' exams that did or did not contain the students' names, on average they found favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither favoritism nor discrimination by gender, finding that a changing correlation between endophilia and exophobia can generate perverse predictions for observed market discrimination.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-sector model was developed to quantify the effect of different tax regimes in incentivizing women to enter the labor force and estimate the feedback effect from women entering the workforce on the service sector size.

TL;DR: The historical introduction of family policies ever since the end of the nineteenth century is discussed and the details regarding family policies currently in effect across high-income nations are turned to.

TL;DR: In 2007, Germany implemented a generous parental leave regulation in order to make parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for mothers as discussed by the authors, and evaluated the reform using a natural experiment that compares outcomes of parents with children born shortly after and before the coming into effect of the law, and found a significant decrease in mothers' employment probability during the 12 months after giving birth, and an increase in mothers" employment probability after the transfer expires.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the effectiveness of the European Union's first "soft" quota, the 2007 Spanish Gender Equality Act recommending all large public and private Spanish firms to appoint a target of 40 percent of each gender to serve as board directors by 2015.

TL;DR: In the first part of the gender revolution, women have entered the public spheres of education, employment and politics as discussed by the authors, and the next step is the process by which men enter the private sphere and share...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the various effects of working time, in its multiple dimensions, described in the research literature in the past few years, and discuss the effects of long working hours and flexibility in the timing of work schedules and their impact on both labour productivity and firm performance via the underlying long-run labour costs.

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal dataset of 30,000 Italian individuals was used to analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major and labor market outcomes and found that only male students with a very large majority of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college majors.