Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with …

entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document gender discrimination of individual …We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed …

this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …

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

between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a …Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …

. 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 …

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