Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

-level exposure to mixed-gender (versus same-sex) peers. We find robust evidence that pupils in single-sex schools outperform their …-level covariates. Focusing on switching schools, we find that the conversion of the pupil gender type from single-sex to coed leads to … boys, the negative effect is largely driven by exposure to mixed-gender peers at school-level, it is class-level exposure …

income, and the less productive one in raising children, irrespective of gender, an efficient domestic equilibrium will be …

Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …

/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … choices of women: the extent to which a career accommodates work/life balance and has a competitive culture. When students ask …

We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor market …

period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare … enough to level the playing field. A subgroup analysis differentiating between parents’ individual lockdown-specific work … work was not possible. Fathers’ work arrangement instead did not play a significant role. We conclude that the shift …

. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers’ gender and …. An increase in diversity may thus help reducing salary disparities and foster work atmosphere. …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

It is common for mentorship programs to use race, gender, and nationality to match mentors and mentees. Despite the … on mentor quality is provided. The evidence suggests that female students use mentor gender to alleviate information …