We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … 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 …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct 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 …

difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …-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 … several explanations, we conclude that the gender gap in political career progression is consistent with the existence of a …This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

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

' 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 … policies, flexible work arrangements, and gender equality. …

that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …

makes the same career step. In most domains, this reflects a gender gap for "marginal" scholars, consistent with lower merit …Do gender disparities in academia reflect that female scholars are held to higher standards than males? We address this … question by comparing the scientific merit of male and female academic economists who make the same career step. Across four …