Do daughters make you more conservative?

Catherine Rampbell writes up a new GAO report on gender gaps in the workforce. The pay gap continues to slowly narrow:

International Women's Day was earlier this month, and I spent the week speaking to many different audiences, largely of women, from big corporations to a small community college. My impressions and take-aways over the course of the week provide a snapshot of the state of the movement toward genuine male-female equality in the U.S.

OF THE many glass ceilings contraining women's careers, one is particularly important yet often overlooked: the wage of the husband. In a new paper, Marianne Bertrand, Emir Kamenica (both University of Chicago) and Jessica Pan (National University of Singapore) show how thick this ceiling really is.

Women's expectations of the opposite sex are at least as unrealistic as men's

Stuart Gabriel, Ryan Vaughn and I have written a new paper that uses some funky data to take a look at how a leading subprime bank priced its credit and sized its loans during the 2003 to 2006 period (the bank died in February 2007).   Everybody knows that banks seek out "good borrowers" who won't default and so we control for borrower attributes such as FICO Score and household income and the race of the borrower.

Amanda Marcotte on the wave of anti-abortion legislation sweeping the country and the myth of the libertarian tea party:

A privately funded shelter for male victims of domestic abuse — believed to be the only refuge of its kind in the country — has closed. Men’s rights advocate Earl Silverman said he can’t afford to keep the Men’s Alternative Safe House (MASH) running. Since it opened out of his house about three years ago, close to 20 men have passed through, he said. Among them was a “father with two children, a one-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy and he was fleeing a violent, alcoholic wife.”

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder marked by an evolutionarily puzzling combination of high heritability, reduced reproductive success, and a remarkably stable prevalence. Recently, it has been proposed that sexual selection may be crucially involved in the evolution of schizophrenia. In the sexual selection model (SSM) of schizophrenia and schizotypy, schizophrenia represents the negative extreme of a sexually selected indicator of genetic fitness and condition.