affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally … with brothers. Gender-biased human capital investment by families tends to amplify the harmful effects for girls, while …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …

that of fathers. In terms of gender differences, there is the evidence of a dependency burden in the occupational choice of …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …