, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women …

Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social … connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school … proportion of female MBA section peers increases the likelihood of entering senior management for women but not for men. This …

This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into …

differ in the presence of women among employee representatives. Our findings suggest that having female representatives at … the bargaining table can help transform workplaces to better meet women’s needs and ultimately close the gender gap. …

on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two … to child care and the probability of working in a skilled job. We then use data on educational decisions of women in the … indicators at the regional level, and exploit regional variability to identify how women's educational investment reacts to …

there are negligible gender gaps in academic match, high-attaining women systematically undermatch in terms of expected …