This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of …

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

higher education, from 11 to 14.5 percent. These effects are driven by high-achieving girls in mathematics. We find limited … reduced the prevalence of stereotypes associated with jobs in science and gender differences in abilities, but it made the … influence female students' choice of study. Results suggest that emphasis on the gender theme is less important to the …

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

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 …

& Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both … ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze the role of gender in repeated Prisoners' Dilemma played by Spanish high …

We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … it is important to avoid generalisations on the presence of gender gaps in attitudes towards competition. This being the …

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