Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender preferences … from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …