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 …

We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In … differently if their self-reported gender matched the grammatical gender used in the instructions. The results reveal that the …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

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 …

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 … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor …

refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the pronouns “he,” “she,” or the gender-inclusive singular “they.” In … languages with grammatical gender, the nouns and the grammatical structure they are embedded in mark them as either male, female …, or gender-inclusive. Little is known as to whether the framing of norms with respect to these grammatical genders affects …