This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …

identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender …

promotion standards are chosen to maximize profit, the standards will reflect gender in ways that are difficult to distinguish …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no …

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and … likely to hold the view. As a benchmark, classmates' average gender attitudes have a similar effect size. We find that …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …