a model in which HRM decisions affect employees' self-images and thereby their motivation. We show that in the absence …

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the … fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of … women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to women’s lower average levels of optimism and self-confidence, and higher …

of their motivation, do not increase their scores under relative grading. Since women slightly outperform men under … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

not explain sexual behavior of married women, suggesting a lack of bargaining power in HIV prevention decisions among … and females including a separate focus for married men and women. Moreover, the large predictive power of high …

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … full time in the Nether-lands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands isquite low, sample … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two …

manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that … paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their … performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We …

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …