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 …

workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …-mothers, impeding mothers' ability to climb career ladders over the longer run. Finally, using auxiliary data based on a survey, we find …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New …

Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender …, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the …

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … education and labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitiveness with an important career choice of … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be …

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …

gender differences in preferences for competition suggests that this process might result in fewer women choosing to … considered) attenuates gender differences. In our first experiment, although women are less likely than men to choose competitive … organizations. More generally, our findings suggest that gender differences in attitudes toward completion may be context-dependent …