Frontiers in the Economics of Gender

Francesca Bettio is Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Siena, ItalyAlina Verashchagina is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Siena, Italy.

• Foreword: Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina, Part One: Historical perspectives 1. Women in the history of economic thought through gender lenses, Annalisa Rosselli and Cristina Marcuzzo 2. The historical construction of gender: reflections on gender and economic history Patricia Hudson, Cardiff University Part Two: Theoretical developments 3. A gender neutral approach to gender issues Alessandro Cigno 4. The gender gap Graciela Chichilnisky 5. Ghosts in the machine: a post Keynesian analysis of gender relations, households and macroeconomics Haroon Akram Lodhi and Lucia C. Hanmer Part Three: A fresh look at households 6. Conceptualizing care Nancy Folbre 7. Gender and household decision making Shelly Lundberg Part Four: Labour market debates 8. Gender Differences across Europe Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro-Guttierez and Ali Skalli 9. Occupational Segregation and Gender wage Disparities in Developed Economies. Should We Still Worry? Francesca Bettio 10. The transition from planned to market economies: how are women faring? Marina Malysheva, Russian Academy of Sciences and Alina Verashchagina Part Five: Lessons from the laboratory 11. The Gender Gap: Using the Lab as a Window on the Market Catherine Eckel 12. The Gender effect in the Laboratory. Experimenter Bias and Altruism Alessandro Innocenti and Maria Grazia Pazienza Part Six: Institutions matter 13. Gender and the Political economy of knowledge, Ann Mary May