sciences. This type of gender segregation in the labour market is still prevalent in many countries. But will it continue …? Girls now do as well as, and often better than, boys in most core school subjects; and proficiency in a subject influences …

This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to … climb the job ladder with focus on the effect of children. We attempt to disentangle whether children directly affect … promotions, or whether the effect of children is correlated with effort. We find that the probability to progress on the career …

paper studies the "peer-effect" to show how gender of preceding siblings shape risky sexual behavior of teen girls in … Nigeria, a context characterized by age and gender based hierarchy. Using individual data from the DHS surveys it shows that … the household. The study underlines how gender roles and the birth order of siblings affect adolescents' risky behaviour …

Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a … focusing on explicitly stated parental preferences for their children’s occupations, using a large-scale randomized survey … 105 pairs of occupations, and the respondents are not informed about the gender distribution of the two occupations …