We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective … effective leaders potentially self-confirming. We find no evidence that such bias impacts actual leadership performance …

this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans … scenario of partial policy convergence, we also find evidence that the gap between East and West German gender role attitudes … the notion of social identity. -- political regimes ; gender role attitudes …

, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women … leaders, we find that sorting into leadership is not related to individual honesty preferences. In the control we find that … leadership, as they align dishonest behavior with their belief on group members' honesty preferences. …

Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social … affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions. Merging administrative data from a top-10 U.S. business school with … related to gender-specific advice, (ii) higher ambitions and self-confidence, and (iii) increasing support from male MBA peers …

marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …. -- savings behavior ; marriage ; divorce ; economics of marriage ; gender roles …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late … 1970s and the 1980s were significantly more son-biased than those of other ethnic groups in Russia. This finding suggests …

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

affected by traditional gender roles, while this does not seem to be the case for the affective part of their subjective well …-being. -- unemployment ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; Day Reconstruction Method ; identity ; partnership ; gender roles …

. The present paper highlights this problem referring to institutional details and empirical results related to Germany and …