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 …, Scouts and sports fields) to understand whether access to spaces of social interaction drives neighbor effects. We find that …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

' programming skills and on their awareness of gender differences in the workforce. However, it did not seem to affect girls …' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …

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. …

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 …