This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …

instrumental variable strategies, for instance based on the gender disparity in industries and occupations. Our results suggest …

We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers …

characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …

policies, flexible work arrangements, and gender equality. …

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

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …