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 …

Research on female political representation has tended to overlook the traditional role of women as leaders across many … local elections. Our findings indicate that ethnic groups historically allowing women in leadership roles in politics do … observe that institutional, rather than economic, factors significantly shape the traditional political influence of women …

Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on …

stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …-related dissertations and bring gender-related topics into a wide range of fields within economics. Men in economics have also substantially …

that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this … will bias the estimated effect of changing Social Security policy on men's labor force participation …

inequality among men but not among women … concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector industries. With the steady decline in private sector unionization and rising … remarkable rise in the share of women among unionized workers. Currently, approximately half of unionized employees in North …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial … productivity, we find that men in the top three quintiles of the initial productivity distribution are made better off by a …

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