This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … peer environment has lasting effects on occupational sorting and the gender wage gap …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …

Is it possible to improve women's agency by providing information about their abilities? Using a lab experiment in the … field, I study how perceived abilities and gender stereotypes shape intra-household dynamics. I use an incentivized decision … because they are perceived to be less skilled than their husband, and whether it is possible to reduce this gender bias within …

We construct measures of gender altruism, or the propensity of an equal allocation towards the other gender, in a …) systematically lower levels of gender altruism in lake-fishing villages compared to sea-fishing villages, and (b) a higher tendency … supporting the idea that differences in cultural norms about gender equality shape individual attitudes towards violence against …

In this case study of faculty at a large Canadian research university we examine the extent to which the gender pay gap … contributions to the gender pay gap of base pay, access to the rank of full professor, access to and amounts of market supplements … variations in the gender pay gap across departments with different proportions of females. The use of multilevel analysis allows …

we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around …

we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around …

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 …

Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue … tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. …