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 …

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 …

the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply …, ranging from 17.8 percent for childless women to 68.0 percent for women with three or more children. However, using a … counterfactual analysis we find that the adjusted gender lifetime earnings gap of 10 percent differs only slightly by women's family …