Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender …Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the … influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and …

Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

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 …

We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from … unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is …

-level exposure to mixed-gender (versus same-sex) peers. We find robust evidence that pupils in single-sex schools outperform their …-level covariates. Focusing on switching schools, we find that the conversion of the pupil gender type from single-sex to coed leads to … boys, the negative effect is largely driven by exposure to mixed-gender peers at school-level, it is class-level exposure …

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …