attracts the interest of potential adoptive parents with probability 11.5% if it is a girl and 7.9% if it is a boy. As for race …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

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 …

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 …

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …