-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

choices using the example of child care - a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 … Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the … prior tournament is unfair, i.e., a loss is no longer necessarily based on merit, women are more discouraged than men. These …

well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … different ways. Specifically, East German women were required to work full-time whereas West German women were expected to focus …

margin does not increase the likelihood that men form families. In contrast, women admitted to further education are more … observed in the data is driven by selection. For women, our estimates are consistent with the idea that, as increased returns … make women more attractive as potential partners. …

gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by …

sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and …

gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … controlling for individual characteristics does not offset the gender gap, but our results indicate that the gap is eroded by high …