the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

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 …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

]sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance …

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. …

We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender … differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap … beliefs are exogenously aligned by implementing sabotage via strategy method, the gender gap in sabotage choices disappears …