Although there has been a worldwide cry for gender equity within organizations, gender discriminatory practices continue to be a challenge. Many women still suffer from gender discrimination and remain at the bottom of organizational structures despite their efforts to ascend. This paper seeks...

How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors—their gender—affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth...

We show that signals of higher education, professional experience, and access to professional networks are more valuable for women's career advancement than for men's. On average, additional qualification signals increase male directors' probability to become CEO by 10.1%, while this probability...