We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …

assessments, and characteristics of their families and siblings, we examine potential channels of the gender gap. Our results … confirm that objective mathematics abilities only explain a small share of the gender gap in self-assessed mathematics …. Gender-biased parental assessments explain a large part of the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment, highlighting the …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps …

This paper studies whether sibling gender affects personality traits. We use the idea that if parents decide to have a …-born sibling's gender and the first sibling's personality traits is causal. We employ longitudinal data from a large British cohort …

This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years ….6 percentage point higher than their high‐ability female counter-parts. This contributed to the increase in the conditional gender … conditional gender wage gap between ages 21 and 36 …