-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …

The adoption of healthcare technology is central to improving productivity in this sector. To provide new evidence on … how technology affects healthcare markets, we focus on one area where adoption has been particularly rapid: surgery for …. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …

, robot adoption by firms endogenously responds to labor scarcity, alleviating potential displacement of existing workers …

Using several sources, we construct a data set of robot purchases by French manufacturing firms and study the firm …-level implications of robot adoption. Out of 55,390 firms in our sample, 598 have adopted robots between 2010 and 2015, but these firms … account for 20% of manufacturing employment and value added. Consistent with theory, robot adopters experience significant …

that an additional robot reduces employment and wages in an industry by roughly as much as an additional 2 to 3 workers and …

valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology regulation in a second best world, with rich heterogeneity across …

from Colombia for cheaper robot-made U.S. products. We use employer-employee matched data from the Colombian social … greater for women; older workers; workers employed in small and medium sized enterprises, and workers employed in …

staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that … robot adoption increases employment by augmenting the number of care workers and nurses on flexible employment contracts …, and decreases difficulty in staff retention. Robot adoption also reduces the monthly wages of regular nurses, consistent …