Previous studies have often emphasized the gender effects of individual teachers but have paid less attention to the … gender composition of teacher teams. We examine the effects of teacher gender composition on the noncognitive characteristics … mixed-gender teacher teams significantly improve the noncognitive characteristics of students. The underlying mechanism …

psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a …

We model voters' gender bias as a prejudice on women's competence coming from a distorted prior. We analyse the effect … choose to seek re-election more often. We also show that if parties endogenously select candidates, the effect of gender bias … of this bias in a two-period two-party election in which voters care about both ideology and competence. We find that …

This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … data on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female-owned firms … countries in our sample. Overall, the evidence suggests that in high-gender bias countries, female entrepreneurs are more likely …