for moving couples while precisely accounting for pre-move employment dynamics. Our results show that men's earnings … increase significantly after the move, while women suffer large losses in the first years after the move. We shed light on … potential mechanisms and show that spouses' earnings response is driven by men moving to larger, higher paying establishments …

patriarchic as well as in modern societies? We experimentally assess men's and women's preferences to compete in a traditional … society where women and men have similar rights and entitlements alongside a patriarchic and a matrilineal society which have … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA …) basketball teams. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team's risk-taking, a finding that … is robust to several empirical strategies, including an instrumental variable approach. We find that women's teams with a …

earnings growth for men and women. Using administrative data, we are the first to investigate potential gender gaps in earnings … selected group of women to an average group of men. Once, we add firm fixed effects, however, gender differences disappear …Occupational positions can explain an important part of the differences in pay between men and women. However, a …

considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …

This paper investigates the contribution of managers to gender gaps and analyzes whether the over-representation of men … manufacturing firms, we separate out the factors explaining gender gaps. Adjusted pay gaps are positive, which means that men earn … more than observationally equivalent women. A significant share of pay gaps can be explained by the sorting of men and …

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral … 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 …

We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German … counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that a substantial part (7.6%) of the gender gap in wage expectations can be … overconfidence on the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution, suggesting that …