The gender gap in risk-taking is often used to explain differences in labor market outcomes. Some studies, however …, suggest that this gender gap does not extend to professional contexts. This paper examines potential drivers of the gender gap … 474 scientists we vary the salience of the professional or private identity. We find that the gender gap in risk-taking is …

administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … performance measures does not reduce the gender gap. Our second experiment removed video interaction, and compared blind to non …-blind evaluations. No gender gap is present in either case. These results rule out traditional economic models of discrimination …

assessments, and characteristics of their families and siblings, we examine potential channels of the gender gap. Our results … confirm that objective mathematics abilities only explain a small share of the gender gap in self-assessed mathematics …. Gender-biased parental assessments explain a large part of the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment, highlighting the …

assessments, and characteristics of their families and siblings, we examine potential channels of the gender gap. Our results … confirm that objective mathematics abilities only explain a small share of the gender gap in self-assessed mathematics …. Gender-biased parental assessments explain a large part of the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment, highlighting the …

Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants' aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …

Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants’ aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …

. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which … explains such interaction through role model effect or Pygmalion effect, we explain such interaction in terms of gender based … returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education … have more favorable traits except Conscientiousness; Over the life cycle, gender and socioeconomic gaps widen in Openness …