the bargaining table can help transform workplaces to better meet women’s needs and ultimately close the gender gap. …Uneven family responsibilities are at the root of gender gaps. Using a new dataset covering all firm-level agreements … differ in the presence of women among employee representatives. Our findings suggest that having female representatives at …

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 …

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 …

different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the …

Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … this mechanism. We find that in countries that are historically more gender-equal the tax system today is more … redistributive. At the individual level, we find that in more gender equal countries gender differences in redistributive preferences …

Workplace tournaments are one likely contributor to gender differences in labor market outcomes. Relative to men, women … environment that may produce more gender-neutral outcomes: tournaments with safeguards. In our experiments, participants take part … higher wages for the low-ranked. As expected, we find that women are more likely than men to obtain such a safeguard. However …

economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been … counterparts. Gender collectively had the greatest explanatory effect associated with stature, followed by age and nativity …