This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly ….S. business school, are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly … rising gender gap in earnings: differences in training prior to MBA graduation; differences in career interruptions; and …

discourage women from participating to a greater extent. Using other OECD countries and especially the United States as a …

are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables … more skilled than the previous one. Blacks and Hispanics have gained relative to whites and women have gained relative to …

premiums among women account for nearly 90 percent of the gender gap in higher education. Interestingly, non-cognitive factors …Nearly 60 percent of college students today are women. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative cohort of … eighth grade students in 1988, I examine two potential explanations for the differential attendance rates of men and women …

performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … ability. Our results highlight the role of institution design in affecting choices of women and men, and the resulting gender …We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory …

of increase in the importance of people skills between the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women%u2019s …

Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and … consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with … selection into violent relationships, I find that violence against pregnant women negatively affects the health of their …

. Women married spouses with less education and later, as did men, if at all. In addition, maternal malnutrition reduced the …