pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … coed girls. Moreover, we found that gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of …

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

the early 1950s, the university-educated gender gap began to reduce in response to women’s changing expectations of labour …-force participation, fertility and age at first marriage. By 1987, Australian women were more likely than men to be enrolled at university …

Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. More recently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gaps might differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from … these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe is typically increasing …

-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender …

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …