We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century …

we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …

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 …

it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women … while women are more willing to present face-to-face, they are considerably less likely to give a public presentation …-esteem. The aversion to public speaking greatly reduces for daughters of working women. From data obtained through an on …

The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We … away" makes female players less successful: despite no gender gap in playing skills, women accumulate lower scores than men … characterized by self-selection into an uncertain, competitive and male-dominated environment. We observe gender differences in …

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 …

reduced the prevalence of stereotypes associated with jobs in science and gender differences in abilities, but it made the … underrepresentation of women in science more salient. Using machine learning methods, we leverage the diversity of role model profiles to … influence female students' choice of study. Results suggest that emphasis on the gender theme is less important to the …

The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are … particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender obesity gaps on average exceed 10 percentage … points. This paper examines one of the explanations, namely the role of female empowerment on gender gaps in obesity. We …

Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that …

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 …