growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …

, while marketization reallocates labor from home to market services. Given gender comparative advantages, the first channel …

partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language … similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …

Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender … worked. Education, occupation and family formation mediate half of this decline. Holding skills constant, girls who conform … less to gender norms live in regions with higher female employment and university attendance, highlighting the role of the …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … findings highlight that alleviating commuting costs does not uniformly boost women's labor participation, as gender roles and …

This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of … gender pay gap. The whole decline in the gap originates from (i) newer worker cohorts who enter the labor market with smaller …-than-average gender pay gaps and (ii) older worker cohorts who exit with higher-than-average gender pay gaps. As predicted by the model …

This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender … composition of a large organization can persistently shift gender norms. Exploiting city-by-department variation in the sudden … and horizontal transmission of gender norms and highlight how increasing gender representation within the public sector …

of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in …