Gender economics

Gender differences in the US

State of the Union 2018
By: Marianne Cooper, Shelley Correll – Stanford University

Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States
By: Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

Women in academia

Erin Hengel finds that female-authored papers take half a year longer in peer review but:

(i) female-authored papers are 1–6 percent better written than equivalent papers by men; (ii) the gap is almost two times higher in published articles than in earlier, draft versions of the same papers; (iii) women’s writing gradually improves but men’s does not

Publishing while female – Are women held to higher standards? Evidence from peer review
Author: Erin Hengel
From: University of Liverpool

Solutions?

A stronger institutional environment, more equal legal rights and labor market protection are associated with higher female labor force participation. But when labor market protection becomes very high associated labor force participation gaps widen.
Gender Equality: Which Policies Have the Biggest Bang for the Buck?
Authors: Sonali Jain-Chandra, Kalpana Kochha, Monique Newiak, Yang Yang, Edda Zoli
From: IMF

Shame — a gender pay gap solution
By: Lars Syll – Malmö University

Interesting finding

We also provide illustrative evidence that the gender gap in math is smaller in European countries that used to be part of the Soviet bloc, as opposed to the rest of Europe. The lesson is twofold: (1) a large part of the pervasive gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes.

Math, Girls and Socialism
Authors: Quentin Lippmann, Claudia Senik
From: Paris School of Economics, Universite Paris IV Sorbonne