Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience …. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …

Textbook theory assumes that firm managers maximize the net present value of future cash flows. But when you ask them …, real-world firm managers consistently say that they are maximizing something else entirely: earnings per share (EPS …). Perhaps this is a mistake. No matter. We take firm managers at their word and show that EPS maximization provides a single …

interacting with powerful men. For example, male employees may schmooze with their managers in ways that female employees cannot … rotation to estimate the causal effect of managers' gender on their employees' career progression. We find that when male … employees are assigned to male managers, they are promoted faster in the following years than they would have been if they were …

churning - both higher entry and higher exit rates. Unconditionally, women earn 26% less than men, which decreases to 7.9% once …

Competitive high ranking positions are largely occupied by men, and women remain scarce in engineering and sciences … men, on a leveled playing field, differ in their selection into competitive environments. Men and women in a laboratory … subsequently choose the scheme they want to apply to their next performance. Twice as many men as women choose the tournament over …

leverage as well as a lowering of future returns for firms in less competitive environments. Current leverage will therefore be … competitive industries, the negative relation between past returns and current leverage will be attenuated. Theory suggests that … the relation between current leverage and future returns for such firms will be zero or negative. Using a proxy to …