Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a … hypothetical scenario, we document that the majority of girls expects to work 20 hours or less per week when having a young child …

. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … experimental design. In contrast to the literature, our results imply that the whole gender gap is driven by risk attitudes and …

The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …

evidence that these findings have implications for the effectiveness of gender quotas. …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …