Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

on average females are significantly less likely than men to make risky choices, on exposure to single]sex environments … they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …