For the inaugural virtual issue of The Economic Journal, the Editors have chosen to demonstrate how researchers in different fields of economics have found gender important for understanding the economy and individual behaviour. The collection covers a wide range of methods and issues–from politics, justice, education, all the way to demography–which illustrates the diversity of current research on gender. As a general interest journal, The Economic Journal is uniquely positioned to cut across the different fields within economics to foster the dialogue and cross-pollination between them. While the collection focuses on recent articles, it starts with an article published by Sidney Webb in the first volume of the Journal, entitled “The Alleged Differences in the Wages Paid to Men and to Women for Similar Work” which shows the topicality, then and now, of the subject for economics.
The Alleged Differences in the Wages Paid to Men and to Women for Similar Work
Volume 1, Issue 4
Sidney Webb
A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
Volume 129, Issue 618
Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson
Assessing Plan B: The Effect of the Morning After Pill on Children and Women
Volume 127, Issue 607
Andrea Bentancor, Damian Clarke
Pathbreakers? Women's Electoral Success and Future Political Participation
Volume 128, Issue 613
Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots?Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer
Contraception and the Demographic Transition
Volume 127, Issue 606
Joydeep Bhattacharya, Shankha Chakraborty
Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions
Volume 129, Issue 618
Alison Booth, Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang
China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioural Change or Financial Necessity?
Volume 129, Issue 618
Lisa Cameron, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang
Paid Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes
Volume 128, Issue 608
Natalia Danzer, Victor Lavy
Risk and Temptation: A Meta-study on Prisoner's Dilemma Games
Volume 128, Issue 616
Friederike Mengel
Additional Returns to Investing in Girls' Education: Impact on Younger Sibling Human Capital
Volume 128, Issue 616
Javaeria A. Qureshi
Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labour Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Volume 127, Issue 604
Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Wiswall, Basit Zafar
Culture, Institutions and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China
Volume 129, Issue 617
Y Jane Zhang
