We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … will, on average, be more skilled than male managers, since females from the low end of the talent distribution will … abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average female manager will then be better at mitigating more intense …

higher probability of failure. These findings could have important implications for our understanding of individual career …

-lasting effects on career trajectories. Women are substantially less likely than men to win future elections and to climb the …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … compare the differential political career progression of women who closely win versus closely lose a state legislature … several explanations, we conclude that the gender gap in political career progression is consistent with the existence of a …

career paths, and we randomize whether a professional receives a message from a male or a female student. We focus the … experimental design and analysis on two career attributes that prior research has shown to differentially affect the labor market … choices of women: the extent to which a career accommodates work/life balance and has a competitive culture. When students ask …

How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable …

Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions which can lead to a misallocation of …

' career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such … fathers to utilize paternity leave without incurring unwarranted career costs. This has implications for statutory leave …