5/5 It may still be too early for the effects of Québec’s policies on wealth gaps to be fully observable. We need research to keep tracking interprovincial trends going forward. More importantly, Canada needs individual-level data to better understand and address enduring gender wealth gaps.

4/5 Did the family policy implemented in Québec in the 2000s improve wealth gaps? The evidence is mixed. Non-pension wealth gaps declined more in Québec than in several other provinces, but Ontario experienced similar improvements, suggesting that other factors may also have been at play.

3/5 Women consistently possess less wealth than men. However, this gap has narrowed significantly over time in the domain of workplace pension wealth.

2/5 We know relatively little about gender wealth gaps in Canada because wealth data are primarily collected at the household level, which conceals within-family inequalities. To address this issue, we used a machine learning approach to estimate individual-level wealth for men and women.

Enormous thanks to all authors, reviewers and the SER editors!

10/ 📖 Access the full issue here: academic.oup.com/ser/issue

9/🔹 Wealth, gender and sexual orientation—evidence from siblings
by Erwan Dujeancourt, Anne Boschini et Anna Nordén doi.org/10.1093/ser/....

8/🔹 The gender (tax) gap in parental transfers. Evidence from administrative inheritance and gift tax data
by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

7/🔹 The gender of inheritance in an upper-class family network: Dallas, 1895–1945
by @shayobrien.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

🔹 Class origin, intergenerational transfers, and the gender wealth gap by @natrinh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

6/ 🔹 A cohabitation wealth premium for women and men: considering the regulatory framework and normative acceptance in France and Germany
by @nicolekapelle.bsky.social , Nicolas Frémeaux, @pmlersch.bsky.social & @marionleturcq.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

5/🔹Gendered wealth and the challenges of child support in India by Upasana Garnaik doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

4/ 🔹 Is Kenya’s gender wealth gap narrowing? New insights from probate records
by Rebecca Simson doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

🔹 The shift to stock-based compensation and gender inequality in wealth in the United States
by Angelina Grigoryeva doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

3/ The issue includes 8 original articles that explore how gender wealth gaps emerge and persist in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia.

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

2/ Our review introduction:

🔹maps out the methodological challenges of quantifying the gender wealth gap ;
🔹identifies the key mechanisms and structures that sustain them ;
🔹highlights limitations of existing works and proposes an agenda for future research.

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