growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … ; gender differences ; competition ; sales contests ; awards …

curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after …

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

; satisfaction ; working hours ; gender …

The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences in that relationship. Using the Dutch Time Use Surveys for the years 2000 and 2005 …

existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower … likely to be indirect than direct.This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economics of Education Review' (30 …