We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique … evidence for a statistically significant 4% gender wage gap among workers, at the project level. We also find that female … proposals in the regressions, the gender wage gap virtually disappears, i.e., it is statistically insignificant and very small …

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …

gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away …

workers can be effective to foster labor supply, despite the alternative of commuting cross-border from adjacent regions. …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers’ gender and …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …

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 … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …