gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … controlling for individual characteristics does not offset the gender gap, but our results indicate that the gap is eroded by high …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871. …

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …

effect of parenthood on research productivity is negative for unmarried women and positive for untenured men. Moreover …

aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to … direction, meaning that the gender gap in entrepreneurial entry would be even larger if women had the same scores and the same …Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …

Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social … science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using … men and women in Turkey. There are significant differences between the genders, nevertheless. In particular, the effect of …

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …