This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …

find substantial cross-country variation for job preferences, with larger effects in countries with larger gender gaps …. These results are consistent with role models inspiring students to overcome gender stereotypes and pursue a STEM career …. However, in countries with negligible gender gaps, role models do not seem to have this equalizing function. …

The idea that students benefit from same-sex teachers has motivated policies around the world aimed at reducing gender …. In primary education, effects vary substantially by country and outcome. In secondary education, same-sex teacher effects …

canonical model of skill-biased technological change augmented with a gender dimension, an endogenous market/home labor choice … and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for …

analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings’ gender does not systematically affect personality. …

studies also document gender differences in a variety of important preference dimensions, such as risk-taking, competition and … and that this difference persists with experience and in environments with varying degrees of risk. This gender voting gap … is accounted for partly by both gender gaps in preferences and by expectations regarding economic circumstances. However …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … peer environment has lasting effects on occupational sorting and the gender wage gap. …