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 …

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 …

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 …

that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … improved the relative status of women relative to both men before and after the transition to social feminism. Twentieth … century women's BMIs were higher than 19th century women relative to men with the rise of social feminism. The primary source …

choices using the example of child care – a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 … Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …

This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly … invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on women's freedom of mobility, and norms about their sexual behavior … often extended periods of male absence from the settlement, implying larger payoffs to imposing restrictions on women …

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality …

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend … of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before. In contrast, the amount of time men devote to housework …