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 …

developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in …-grade and student gender by grade fixed effects, we find that both male and female teachers are more effective at teaching … students of their own gender; (3) However, female teachers are more effective overall, resulting in girls' test scores …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

We investigate the unintended consequences of maternity leave extension on gender gaps in the labor market. Using … help alleviate its adverse impact on gender disparities in hiring …

propose, the "Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI)", measures the losses in aggregate productivity that gender … showcase the versatility of our index, we analyze gender misallocation within countries over time, across countries over the …

This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … ranks. The finding that greater female representation at higher ranks narrows the gender gap in promotion rates at lower …

. Betty Friedan (1963) postulated that beliefs about gender were formed by consumer good producers, but a simple model … unlikely to be universal, or even common, but gender stereotypes have a long history. To explain that history, we turn to a … childbearing, which may explain why gender-related beliefs changed radically among generations born in the 1940s …

Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women … the Pill can account for 10 percent of the convergence of the gender gap in the 1980s and 30 percent in the 1990s …

Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory …