We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …

Standard economic theory predicts that firms will not invest in general training and will underinvest in specific … training. Empirical evidence, however, indicates that firms do invest in general training of their workers. Evidence from … laboratory experiments points to less underinvestment in specific training than theory predicts. We propose a simple model in …