faced the same hours flexibility as Dutch employees. This holds both for men and for women. Another piece of good news is …

Research has consistently shown that women's involvement in household decision making positively affects household … outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra …-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial …

for politicians. We exploit variation in sex ratios - the number of men divided by the number of women in a region … - across Germany induced by WWII. In the 1990 elections, women were more likely to run for office in constituencies that had … election. These results suggest that while women were more likely to run for a seat in parliament in constituencies with lower …

present in STEM field students when exposed to a male task. Specifi- cally, when an easier alternative is available, women are … between men’s and women’s willingness to apply for promotion concerning female jobs in STEM or non-STEM fields. Third, we find … women in STEM. We finally propose an easy-to-implement policy intervention to close the gender gap in STEM students when …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the … prior tournament is unfair, i.e., a loss is no longer necessarily based on merit, women are more discouraged than men. These …

women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …

value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards … more women on corporate boards has large positive effects on Tobin´s Q and buy-and-hold returns. This result is in stark … considered firms with different pre-quota shares of women to be good counterfactuals to each other. In our data, we see that such …

consequences of flexible labor markets for the economic integration of different population groups, such as women, the elderly …