. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped also the attitude toward working women. Against the background … effect on attitudes is not visible in actual behaviour. Another novel finding is that social acceptance of working women … German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …

, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a … lead to an increase in the labor supply of high skill women living in urban areas. In our model we show how large inflows … of low skill women migrants decrease the relative price of domestic services. The largest beneficiaries of this trend are …

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 …

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 …