and we present new evidence that a UK academic diversity programme (Athena Swan) has narrowed the gender pay gap at a …

This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and … without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer … sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …

findings, showing that gender differences in competitiveness tend to result from differences in overconfidence and in attitudes … toward competition. Gender differences in risk aversion, however, seem to play a smaller and less robust role. We conclude by …

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps … perspective to the current debate on measuring gender inequality in human development. As a starting point, we develop a simple … macroeconomic model of the interdependence between human development and gender inequality. We then introduce a biometric indicator …