This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the … Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and … in the private sector. The results also seem to suggest a new dimension of traditional gender roles; the gay applicant …

Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference … may be due to discrimination of boys. We rigorously test this in a field experiment where a random sample of the same …

This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases … teachers increases. The positive same-gender effect on test scores is counteracted by a negative assessment effect. That is …

of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …

affect couples’ geographical mobility and are interested in if their effect varies by gender. The dimensions are geographical … of their occupations. In particular the effect from wage compression in occupations seems to be dependent on gender, with … more to the man's career possibilities than the woman’s, even when we adjust for the underlying gender differences in …