We study potential drivers of the link between gendered languages and gender differences in economic behaviour that economists have recently documented. Combining identity economics and linguistic theory, our formal model distinguishes a direct effect of speaking a gendered language from...

Eine geschlechtergerichtete Sprache, insbesondere die Aussparung der weiblichen Form, kann zu realen Wahrnehmungsverzerrungen und Ausgrenzungen führen und dabei unerwünschte gesellschaftliche Effekte, wie berufliche Geschlechtersegregation und unterschiedliche Bezahlung, verstärken. Offen...

Andreas Peichl und Britta Rude, ifo Institut, stellen die Entwicklung des geschlechtsspezifischen Einkommensgefälles in Deutschland dar. So sei die geschlechtsspezifische Einkommenskluft zwischen 2001 und 2016 leicht gestiegen. Besonders signifikant seien Einkommensunterschiede zwischen...

We study a possible nurture effect of political systems on the evolution of gender differences in work preferences by exploiting the 41-year division of Germany and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We investigate whether disparate political and social systems produced different...

I analyse about 160 estimates of the relationship between female migrants' labour force participation and ancestry culture, integrating studies from economics and sociology that were previously unconnected. The literature exhibits large heterogeneity in results that is only partly explained by...

We compare the earnings of monolingual and competent bilingual immigrants in Germany. A joint discussion of language skills as human capital or social capital and theories of ethnic marginalisation leads us to expect heterogeneous returns to bilingualism. To track this potential divergence, we...

Building on findings showing that laws exert a causal effect on social norms, this paper investigates whether this "expressive power of law" differs by gender or race. We develop a model to show that such differences are theoretically plausible. We then use an incentivized vignette experiment to...

Building on findings showing that laws exert a causal effect on social norms, this paper investigates whether this "expressive power of law" differs by gender or race. We develop a model to show that such differences are theoretically plausible. We then use an incentivized vignette experiment to...