Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using … newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …

entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to …

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a …

article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … discrimination. I first collect facts from a large empirical literature that show clear gender and race gaps in participation and … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …. Our results suggest that networking frictions are an important reason men benefit more than women from exposure to VCs …

experiment embedded in a survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided … find that expectations of working among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected … information is counteracted by local gender norms: impacts for the T2 group are significant and often larger than those for T1 …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. Contrary to the existing literature, I find that family …-science and engineering fields as a comparison group. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students. The … understand the narrowing of the gender gap in college and its reversal. From 1972 to 1992 high school girls narrowed the gap with …

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then understanding whether women's colleges causally affect that choice is important …

distort incentives to mask across gender. Consistent with the framework, a survey reveals that students anticipate that female …We study a unique grading policy at a large US public university allowing students to mask their letter grades into a … "Pass", after having observed their original grade. Using administrative transcript records, we find that female students …