We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory … performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … choice high performing women choose the hard task significantly more often, at a rate now similar to the decision of men …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women's college completion rate. Behind these changes … were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age at …

of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … roughly half of the increase in the sex ratio that has occurred in India over the past thirty years. In addition, factors such …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as …

years of life for both men and women for cohorts born 1906-1915. This association is close to linear but exhibits strong … association is stronger in places with greater incomes, higher quality of school, and larger investments in public health. Women …

". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …