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 …

One strategy for promoting female leaders in STEM professions is to appoint more women to the committees that select … approach does not work. We use a natural experiment to test the idea that organizational norms supporting gender diversity are … necessary for representation on “selectorates” to promote gender diversity among STEM leaders. Our empirical setting is the …

, and the distinction between Western and Japanese management, on the other. Just as bureaucracy, so Western management … the traditional organization, so Japanese management is quickened by the kinship spirit. The parallel ceases, however … mind-set, Western management theory and practice seem unable to escape the grip of instrumental rationality. Even though …

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 … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …

We analyze the long-term effects of gender imbalances on female labor force participation, in particular in the market … 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 …