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 …

difference in labor supply between their partners and themselves (the expected within-family gender gap). Treatment effects … within-family gender gap. Our results suggest that social norms play an important role in shaping gender gaps in labor …Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link …

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 …

women in STEM. We finally propose an easy-to-implement policy intervention to close the gender gap in STEM students when …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 …

reservation utilities for entering into a marriage. This makes them turn down many offers and makes them appear as "heart-breakers". …

of these two traits from either gender. Our estimate suggests inheritance is about two and a half times more important … than labor income in explaining marriage choice. This quantitative result seems to characterize the expected lifetime … inheritance and labor income after marriage for Germany under the actual rate of return, growth rate, demographics as well as …

through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes in the frictions in the labor market and iii) changes in the labor … force participation costs of married women. …

pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …

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 …