start with, even if once they apply their likelihood of enroling is the same as for boys. Girls are less likely to study …In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor’s degree in Economics to …

approach to modelling household decision taking, flexible enough to encompass non-cooperative behaviour and Pareto …

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. …

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …

, conditional on first round scores, losers go for a more challenging target but perform worse, leading to lower earnings and a …

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. …

developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …