Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "economics of gender"

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    • Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors 

      Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia D.; Katz, Lawrence F. (American Economic Association, 2010)
      The careers of MBAs from a top US business school are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings at the outset of their careers, their earnings ...

    • Gender-Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores 

      Alesina, Alberto Francesco; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas (American Economic Association, 2011)
      Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. ...