maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this …-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and …

competitiveness. All of these aspects are analyzed with respect to the influence of age and gender, and we also consider the role of …

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing … instrument for the share of female directors and find no significant impact on firms' performance. Interestingly, we find that … the stock price reaction to the introduction of gender quotas. A positive effect of the quota law on stock market returns …

From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of the introduction of gender quotas are under scrutiny …. We provide new evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian companies …' performance. Interestingly, the share of female directors is associated with a lower variability of stock market prices. We also …

Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our …

children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …

The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We … characterized by self-selection into an uncertain, competitive and male-dominated environment. We observe gender differences in … away" makes female players less successful: despite no gender gap in playing skills, women accumulate lower scores than men …

effect of psychological momentum on performance. We find that men's performance is significantly affected by psychological … line with evidence in the biological literature that testosterone, which is known to enhance performance of both men and …