Brain versus Brawn: The Realization of Women's Comparative Advantage

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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s (2010, unknown): “These results stand in sharp contrast to Attanasio, Goldberg, and Pavcnik (2004) who find stable employment patterns across industries in Colombia and also Revenga (1997) and Hanson and Harrison (1999) who examine an earlier period in Mexico.”
Families in Macroeconomics (2016, unknown): “More recent contributions connect the decline in the gender wage gap explicitly with the rise of the service sector (Rendall, 2010; Ngai and Petrongolo, 2014).”
Intrahousehold Bargaining, Female Autonomy, and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from India (2020, background): “1 portunities in industries in which women have a comparative advantage (Rendall 2010; Jensen 2012), and cultural norms (Fernández, Fogli and Olivetti, 2004), but little is know about how the division of power within a household affects a woman’s gains from earning income.”
Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life‐Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation (2014, unknown): “Yet others have focused on changes in culture (Fern andez et al., 2004; Fern andez, 2013), changes in the structure of the economy (Goldin, 1990; Galor and Weil, 1996; Rendall, 2010) and changes in child-care costs (Attanasio et al., 2008).”