. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … women in lowers ranks …

-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …

We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men … the penalty to wage rates earned by women with their transition to motherhood (i.e., the motherhood penalty), but it would …

stage, selection does not impede the promotion of behavioral managers. Instead, competitive environments oftentimes promote …

managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also …We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and … environment is important to the formation and selection of managers …

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the …

Time preference is a key determinant of occupational choice and investments in human capital. Since careers are …