Job Tasks, Task-Specific Work Experience, and the Gender Wage Gap

Todd Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner and Paul Sullivan

Journal of Human Capital, 2026, vol. 20, issue 1, 1 - 34

Abstract: Taking advantage of unique longitudinal task data from the Berea Panel Study, we provide a new examination of the gender wage gap, paying particular attention to gender differences in types of work experience. Access to longitudinal, individual-level job-task information, along with unique time-allocation information, allows us to produce quantitative measures of current and past tasks. We provide the first empirical evidence on gender differences in time spent on tasks and show that gender differences in task-specific experience, in particular high-skilled information experience, are important for predicting the widening of the gender wage gap over the career.

Date: 2026
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