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 …

firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we show that import competition has caused worker-level adjustments that lead to job …

Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large … detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many …

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited … corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these … boards post-reform were observably more qualified than their female predecessors along many dimensions, and that the gender …

provision) and gender norms in explaining the observed differences. Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series …

analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …

In this paper we analyze whether the gender composition of classmates in high school affects the choice of college …-major by shifting it towards those majors preferred by the prevalent gender in the class. We use a novel dataset of 30 … exploit the fact that the gender composition of the graduating high school class, from one year to the next, within School …