Many studies document systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk … from gender differences in simple economic choice tasks, to voting over policy and to the resulting outcomes. We conduct a … gender difference is large relative to other voting differences based on observable characteristics and is partly explained …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … a brother acquire more traditional gender norms with negative consequences for their labor earnings. I provide evidence …

widely reported gender happiness inequality puzzle can be explained. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; life satisfaction … ; likert scale ; visual analogue scale ; rating scales ; gender inequalities ; gender gap …