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 …

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 …

Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. Our analyses make use of institutional level panel data that we have … role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender composition of the …

inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …

. This study investigates the influence of gender bias in forming CEOs' business networks. Using transaction data of 1 … million Japanese firms, we find that CEOs of the same gender significantly trade more than those of the opposite gender … CEOs are male, such same-gender bias reduces the trading opportunities for females relative to male CEOs. Regarding …

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 …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap …

, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …