Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines …

find that there has been no erosion of the gender gap in the tendency to sort into occupations with the highest share of …

Occupational segregation is one of the major causes of the gender pay gap. We probe the possibility that individual … beliefs regarding gender stereotypes established in childhood contribute to gendered sorting. Using an experiment with two … fictitious peer pursue different college majors and career paths simply because of their gender. We find strong evidence that …

equilibrium Roy model with gender-specific frictions. If female workers experience higher frictions in nonagricultural sectors …

Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a … 105 pairs of occupations, and the respondents are not informed about the gender distribution of the two occupations …. Results show that adults are gender-neutral when advising a daughter but have a pronounced preference for male …

-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender wage gap and selection into management occupations … experiences, our results leave less room for direct labor market discrimination as a driver of the gender wage gap and occupation …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use … suggests that this variable is by any statistical measure among the most important proximate predictors of occupational gender … additional data, we finally also show that the gender difference in occupational preferences is largely independent of individual …

document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of …