This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

47.6% gender discount in auction prices for paintings. The discount is higher in countries with greater gender inequality …. In experiments, participants are unable to guess the gender of an artist simply by looking at a painting and they vary in …

This study adapts a multi-level view of culture, including society- and family-based gender norms and the family … least one self-employed parent. We find that gender identity is associated with career status such that a woman is more … either being an employee or successor. However, certain family and society-level culture variables combined with gender …

testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … different entrepreneurial cultures show greater similarity of behaviour (lower variance) than men. But proportionate gender gaps …

probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … different entrepreneurial cultures show greater similarity of behaviour (lower variance) than men. But proportionate gender gaps …