This paper examines determinants of women's participation and performance in the Olympics. Female inclusion and success … status of women and, more weakly, broad societal attitudes on gender issues. Female labor force participation and educational … professionals may have leveled the playing field for poorer countries. But the historical record for women's medal achievement is …

The effects of working part time on job downgrading and upgrading are examined over the life course of British women … occupational mobility were affected by women's personal traits, occupational characteristics and demand-side factors. Downward … mobility on moving from full-time to part-time work was more likely for women at the top levels of the occupational hierarchy …

Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which …. Knowledge of responder’s gender does not imply different sending, even if men trust more their partners than women. However, a …

Do women and men behave differently in financial asset markets? Our results from an asset market experiment show a … marked gender difference in producing speculative price bubbles. Mixed markets show intermediate values, and a meta …-analysis of 35 markets from different studies confirms the inverse relationship between the magnitude of price bubbles and the …

Although the British Railway Mania has been described as one of the greatest bubbles in history, it has been largely …

Historical ‘bubbles’ are often attributed to mispricing, but the empirical analysis of such episodes has been limited …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the disposition effect in an experiment based on Weber and Camerer (1998 …

Are men more willing to take financial risks than women? The answer to this question has immediate relevance for many … investment game allows us to test the robustness of the findings. We find a very consistent result that women invest less, and …

We report the results of an experiment designed to study whether or not having experienced booms and crashes in …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …