show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …

, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using …

We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization … which gender occupational and industrial segregation leads to a widening of the gender gap in employment …

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 … less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a …

more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …

Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for … the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … potential endogeneity of our gender norms measure with an index of the degree of reproductive health liberalization when …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …

the game that they themselves play. We conclude that gender matters when examining how unethical behavior spreads. Both …

We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … more than all-female teams and outperform teams of both alternative gender compositions. In mixed teams, males strongly …