.4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and … associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 …

We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data … for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …

The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality … administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK academic economics departments in research …-intensive universities. Our evidence indicates that, as in the US, women in economics are under-represented and are paid less than men. The …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. A force affecting high- and low-income countries alike are … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this …

Papal States gender inequality was particularly severe, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany experienced a relatively stronger female … the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

' stated preferences regarding their prospective employees' gender. More specifically, the proportion of gender-neutral job … and women, from Google's German language book corpus. These additional series are broadly consistent with the evolution of … the share of gender-neutral job posts. However, it also appears that there are two distinct narratives, one concerned with …