Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. Our analyses make use of institutional level panel data that we have … role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender composition of the …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees in the context of the California gender quota, which was …

We study the effects of peer gender composition, a proxy for female-friendliness of environment, in STEM doctoral … programs on persistence and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender composition … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … heterogeneity across worker groups on average, the link between female wages and gender composition is small and not statistically …