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 …

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 …

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 …

household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives …, which in turn produce systematic variation in expectations. Using unique data on the contributions of men and women to … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender …

results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent … piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low …

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 …

The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily … unexplained gender pay gap. We study the sensitivity of the estimates with regard to i) the availability of observationally … comparable men and women, ii) model flexibility when controlling for wage determinants, and iii) the choice of different …

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 …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …

redistribution from families with sons to families with daughters and can be implemented by a gender-specific schedule of public LTC … benefits and transfers to working children. If the policy is restricted to be gender neutral, we find that the informal care …

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 …