To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … vs. B. Women respond strongly to the salience of Norms; they opt for Career at a significantly lower rate compared to …

inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … patriarchic as well as in modern societies? We experimentally assess men's and women's preferences to compete in a traditional …

-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework …

Women are often perceived as more compliant than men; however, the literature provides inconclusive evidence. Using a … information on weakly non-compliant peer behavior. We find that the recommendation strongly affects behavior but more so for women … responses in men and women. In the second experiment (N=522), we elicit empirical and normative expectations about behavior in …