Cross-country differences in the gender gap of higher education attainment are large. In this paper, we study the role … of gender norms for this particular gender gap. To isolate the effect of gender norms from institutional and economic …'s degree. We measure gender norms using economic outcomes as well as beliefs prevailing in the migrants' parents' country of …

In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians …' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient … referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily …

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories …, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4 …-country relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women's labor force participation and educational attainment. We replicate …

outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …

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 …

What explains the persistence of the gender gap? The World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index documents the persistence of … the gender gap and, more surprising yet, the data validates that in the last decade the gender gap has grown wider. Why …? We provide here a rational market explanation of the gender gap and explain why it is growing wider. We show that the …