We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

the size of credible deviations. In our experiment, we find support for the relevance of credible deviations. In addition …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected … of farmers. Women in urban municipalities, however, set the norm far earlier and differences across social classes were …–class women. This paradox is resolved by noting that they substituted registered work for unregistered work, e.g., in house …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …

. Much more of Russian wage dispersion can be explained by regional and gender-based wage differentials. Labour markets are …