This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

occupations in which they are employed. -- non-cognitive skills ; occupation ; youth ; gender …

that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups. -- labor market discrimination ; lawyers ; gender and racial …

on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained. -- Noncognitve skills ; personality ; occupation ; gender wage gap ; decomposition …

-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the incidence of unwanted gender-related behavior conducted by …

Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews …