and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

find robust differences between the competitive choices of girls from single-sex and coed schools. Moreover, girls from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in …

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …