elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls' interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …

impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …

that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational … first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … attending a large community college in Northern California were randomly selected to receive free computers and were followed …

Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants' aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …

can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and … demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than … and demand. On the supply side, we observe that the use of AI reduces the gender gap in application completion rates …