affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions. Merging administrative data from a top-10 U.S. business school with … related to gender-specific advice, (ii) higher ambitions and self-confidence, and (iii) increasing support from male MBA peers …. These findings highlight the role of social connections in reducing the gender gap in senior management positions. …

graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the … intention to become a professor. We find that gender gaps related to aiming for a professorship can be fully explained by … observable characteristics other than gender. On the contrary, even after adding controls for an array of characteristics …

other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …

The aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender … gender differences in the allocation behaviour. …

This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes … unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in … the development of one particular aspect of personality, that is, locus of control. Overall gender differences were more …

This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes … unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in … the development of one particular aspect of personality, that is, locus of control. Overall gender differences were more …

them to look for better jobs offered by more female friendly firms. -- assortative matching ; gender gap ; glass ceiling …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …