evidence based on the differential impacts of gender and race on the blackness of a name and its popularity that suggest that … discrimination may also be a factor. …

transfer of the gender gap in labor force participation. We explore the extent that family- and community-level characteristics … theories pertaining to the importance of information, skills and gender norms transfer, our empirical analysis demonstrates … that a parsimonious set of family- and community-level characteristics can explain a substantial part of the gender gap …

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …

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 …