This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational … choices. We implement two field experiments with potential applicants to a five-month software-coding program offered to women … from low-income backgrounds in Peru and Mexico. When we correct the perception that women cannot succeed in technology by …

of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the … introduction of ambiguity but men do. At greater levels of ambiguity, women have the same marginal distaste for increased ambiguity …