This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers' perceptions of gender norms on their employment … gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender … share of mothers who misperceive gender norms as overly conservative. The treatment also shifts mothers' own labor …

This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers' perceptions of gender norms on their employment … gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender … share of mothers who misperceive gender norms as overly conservative. The treatment also shifts mothers' own labor …

This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers’ perceptions of gender norms on their employment … gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender … share of mothers who misperceive gender norms as overly conservative. The treatment also shifts mothers’ own labor …

Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link between … gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical …, significantly reduce girls' self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender difference in labor supply between …

Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …

This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers’ perceptions of gender norms on their employment … gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender … norm as too conservative - the most pronounced misperception among the various gender norms we examine. Our randomized …

This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers’ perceptions of gender norms on their employment … gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender … share of mothers who misperceive gender norms as overly conservative. The treatment also shifts mothers’ own labor …

education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia … inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …