in-person interview. The data show a very large gender gap in success rates: women's success rate is 36% lower than men …We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious …'s. About one third of this gap is due to the lower grades of female candidates, which is surprising given women's higher GPA in …

This paper provides new evidence supporting that gender differences in post-graduate educational choices contribute to … program that provides merit-based graduate fellowships to Spanish students, we show that women apply for the fellowships at … educational and earnings aspirations than women in other fields. …

children's views towards working women. Furthermore we find that this cultural transmission influences female labor market … force participation of the wife of her son. These results indicate that the transmission of gender role attitudes …

particularly hard. Women were slightly more likely to lose their job than men, and those who remained employed were more likely to … burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …

leave delayed higher-order births and reduced subsequent fertility among older women (by about 15%). These results suggest a … limited scope for the father quota to alter household behaviors beyond the parental leave period and reduce gender inequality …

This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market … participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities … 10 minutes increase in commuting decreases the probability of married women to participate in the labor market by 4 …

Social norms are an important barrier to gender convergence. We show that public policy designed to promote gender … equality at home can pave the way towards gender convergence by shaping gender norms in the next generation. We combine the … difference-in-differences approach, we show that children born after the policy change exhibit more gender egalitarian attitudes …