We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average female manager will then be better at mitigating more intense … product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …

choices of women: the extent to which a career accommodates work/life balance and has a competitive culture. When students ask …This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … career paths, and we randomize whether a professional receives a message from a male or a female student. We focus the …

How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable … characteristic of same-age neighbors—their gender—affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …

results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent …Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of … piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non … candidacy. Studying mechanisms, we find that women are likely held back by incompatibilities between family obligations and …

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 …

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 …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … observe significant heterogeneity among countries in terms of gender gaps in promotions and wages, but the gaps that exist … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how …

-lasting effects on career trajectories. Women are substantially less likely than men to win future elections and to climb the …This paper investigates the impact of voter support on the representation of women in the political profession. The … that among candidates who marginally qualify for the final round, women are 20 percent less likely than men to be elected …

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The … vehicle of analysis is a promotion-signaling model in which wages are realistically determined by market forces. We find that …