Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …

favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a …

In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we … industrial composition of employment and in interindustry wage differentials on these gaps. The gender gap in pay was stable in …

, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of … women and thus result in reverse discrimination towards men. Interestingly this need not be the outcome when competitive …

first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to …

a larger gender wage gap. In the data women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalized by … missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium model with these key elements generates a gender wage gap of 6.6 percent or … equalized across occupations and set to a relatively low value (i.e. Health care support), the gender gap would fall by more …

favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …-promotion opportunities, this self-promotion gap may contribute to persistent gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes …

Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the gender wage gap, popularizing the push … for women to “lean-in.” We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women …