We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours … gender gaps in lawyers' earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 …

of a bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising … that our results are not driven by gender identification with the candidate, ideology, or other voter's observable … attributes. Effective strategies of persuasive communication should thus take gender into account. Our results may also help to …

We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …

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 …