other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …

decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional … votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for apprenticeships …. Results show that adolescent males in regions with stronger traditional social gender norms are more likely to apply for …

Aspirations and plans for the future can influence investments made today. Gender gaps in these views can perpetuate … gender gaps in outcomes. In this paper, we explore how gender gaps in aspirations and expectations are affected by the local … labor market. Using a national longitudinal survey from Japan, we begin by documenting large gender differences in …

characteristic of same-age neighbors - their gender - affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness … in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …

-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …

of the organization in which they are implemented. This paper studies the effect of gender composition and leadership on … authority, the second study also varied the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially …