Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …

While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social …, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data and finds individual unemployment to be even more hurtful when aggregate … unemployment is higher. On the other hand, an extended model that separately considers individuals who feel stigmatised from living …