pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women …We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …

women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs … weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … this mechanism. We find that in countries that are historically more gender-equal the tax system today is more … redistributive. At the individual level, we find that in more gender equal countries gender differences in redistributive preferences …

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees …, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using …

reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms, they largely ignore individual heterogeneity, such as gender … differences. We experimentally analyze gender differences in prisoner’s dilemmas, where collusive behavior harms a passive third … are informed about personal characteristics in the second game. Results show that guilt-averse women are significantly …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women’s agency. The approach …

Increasing the share of women in politics is regularly promoted as a means of reducing corruption. In this paper, we … look for evidence of a gender gap in dishonesty among elected representatives, as well as how this changes with time in … office. Based on a sample of 356 inexperienced and experienced local politicians in West Bengal, India, we combine survey …

institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …