We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of … evidence that gender gaps in training in the for-profit sector are driven by lower probabilities of accepting training offers …, child or family commitments, weaker labour market attachment, or worker self-selection. We also find that gender differences …

This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor … (2000), I research whether gender identity affects boys' and girls' educational choices and when the gendered pattern … appears first. Further, I test the hypothesis that single-sex schools attenuate the influence of gender-stereotypes. I use the …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education …

competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …

Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky … gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using detailed register data on the latest cohorts … of Danish labour market entrants, this paper examines the intergenerational correlation in gender-stereotypical choice of …

This paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps … no gaps is feasible. We examine the effects of gender-based and gender-neutral subsidies and find that the latter are …

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 …

A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the …