In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …

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 …

We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment …. Evidence from the CPS and an additional study supports the external validity of our experiment, particularly for female job …

examine if absent these factors gender differences in occupations may still occur. Specifically we explore whether women and … experiment perform a real task under a non-competitive piece rate and a competitive tournament scheme. Although there are no … gender differences in performance under either compensation, there is a substantial gender difference when participants …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly … mixed-gender teams perform as well or better than same-gender teams, an 8 percentage point increase in men who think … gender-skewed environment, gender stereotypes are malleable and can be altered by integrating members of the opposite sex …

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find … that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any …

compensation and expected hours worked. As an example, we apply this framework to the gender wage gap and show how it can explain … the gender wage gap …

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing … 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap, respectively. These differences cannot be explained by other judge …