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 article, the effectiveness of double preference voting conditioned on gender, coupled with gender quotas on candidate lists, was studied in the 2012 Italian municipal elections and it was found that the share of female councillors rose by 18 percentage points.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the growth of the service sector as an explanation for the increase in women's employment and developed an economic model that can account for both women's and men's employment at the same time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the growth of the service sector as an explanation for the increase in women's employment in the United States and developed an economic model that can account for both the increase of women's labor supply and the growth in service sector at the same time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of gender attitudes and gender ideology on the likelihood of having another child was investigated in Bulgarian, Czech, French, Hungarian, and Lithuanian generations and gender surveys.