strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking …

measures like the gender wage gap. …

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

. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of … financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance … ; executives ; risk taking ; age ; gender ; education …

country’s gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …

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 … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with …

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 …