In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

, on the gender wage gap, and on gender disparities in career progression. Prevailing gender norms are likely to mediate …

toward competition. Gender differences in risk aversion, however, seem to play a smaller and less robust role. We conclude by …Laboratory studies have documented that women often respond less favorably to competition than men. Conditional on … competition. This means that few women enter and win competitions. We review studies that examine the robustness of these …

We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close … also more likely than men to be unable to work from home, which contributes to their increased exposure. Gender is a more … important factor in workers' exposure to contagion than their education or age. This gender difference in exposure can be …

We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close … also more likely than men to be unable to work from home, which contributes to their increased exposure. Gender is a more … important factor in workers' exposure to contagion than their education or age. This gender difference in exposure can be …

. The strongest impact on the distribution of labour earnings would take place in countries with high gender pay gaps for … equal work and small gender gaps in employment and hours worked (mainly Central and Eastern European countries), whereas … only marginal effects are identified in countries with large gaps in hours worked and gender segregation in the type of …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …