results imply that entrepreneurs react to tax incentives along both real and avoidance margins, while the latter elasticity is …

conferred by time zone differences. We emphasize the role of the entrepreneurs, who decide how to produce business services (i … zone differences. We also show that in the presence of moving costs for entrepreneurs, technological improvements and the …

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 …

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

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 …

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. …