We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of …

-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly … that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …

labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the …

Using data from the U.S. National Incident Based Reporting System we document a gender gap in the number of crimes …

the gender wage gap narrows by one fifth due to an increase by one standard deviation in the approval. Rejecting an … where the gender wage gap is smaller. …

Using data on Executive Compensation from Standard and Poor's ExecuComp, this paper explores the gender gap in top … narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the mid-1990s. Women top executives earn between 8% to 25% less than male … executives after controlling for differences in company size, occupational title, and industry. The magnitude of the gender pay …