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 …

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 …

solving. We evaluate the causal effect of the intervention on the gender gap in mathematics in Italy with a randomized … the math gender gap by more than 40%. The effect is stronger for girls with high pre-test scores. …

document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … education, they remain over-represented in STEM, but also differ significantly from other women by their specific avoidance of … study fields leading to "pink collar" jobs, such as education and social work. They also display a specific choice of work …

education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the …

education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on the …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871. …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …