We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …

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 …

gender gap in STEM. However, the state of knowledge has probably not reached the point where the empirical findings from this …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

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 …

Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature … increases the academic achievement of all students. Nevertheless, the identification of pure gender effects remains a challenge … paper disentangles pure "academic" peer effects and "gender" peer effects. Our estimations reveal that the higher the share …

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects if any … depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender …-directionally along an undirected line (from peers to the worker and from the worker to peers). We identify strong gender differences in …

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 …