India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in … changes in girls' outcomes relative to boys within states and over time are associated with changes in sex ratios at birth. We …

Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India …

strong under-representation of women in math-related fields. This latter result is however no longer true once gender … for girls than boys, a magnitude considered as very large.When this difference is controlled for, the gender gap in … the process leading to women's under-representation in math-intensive fields …

the likelihood that girls go on to complete a bachelor's degree, substituting the latter with junior college degrees … aspirations and to more risky behavior (including having a child before age 18). The girls most strongly affected are those in the … a bachelor's degree from 2.2-4.5 percentage points, depending on the group. Greater exposure to "high-achieving" girls …

secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the …

promoting women in research activities. Exploiting a newly collected data set on recruitment processes to entry-level research … positions in a leading Italian research centre operating mainly in the hard sciences, the study finds that bias against women … discriminating against women. The results suggest that gender of the committee members, network structure and type of recruitment …

responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for … characteristics or other occupation averages.Notably, the effect is muted for women but largely unchanged for men when we include … 'brawn.' These results suggest that women may care more about job content, and this is a possible factor preventing them from …

raise the share of women among council members but they do not affect the quality of politicians, as measured by their … education attainment and by the number of votes obtained. Moreover, within three rounds of elections, women fail to reach …

secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to … increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age … increasing girls' enrolment than comparable conditional cash transfer programs in South Asia, suggesting that the coordinated …