How can we empirically study gender gaps and their underlying causes? In both developed and developing countries, many gender gaps have narrowed in the past century: women are marrying later, having fewer children and spending a far greater fraction of their adult lives in the labor force. In some areas, such as education, women have surpassed men.
In this course, students will learn to use statistical and econometric methods to study gender. In doing so, students will gain experience with finding and using raw data sets, analyzing data with Stata, and presenting empirical results. While this course will not survey all topics in the area of gender economics, students will engage with pressing questions of interest in the field, including: