growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

higher education, from 11 to 14.5 percent. These effects are driven by high-achieving girls in mathematics. We find limited … reduced the prevalence of stereotypes associated with jobs in science and gender differences in abilities, but it made the … influence female students' choice of study. Results suggest that emphasis on the gender theme is less important to the …

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …

explains subsequent gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that … “competitive” individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive counterparts do. Moreover, gender differences in taste for … competition explain around 10% of the overall gender gap. We also find that competitive individuals are more likely to work in …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of human capital formation and education … investigates the impact of gender norms on labor-supply expectations of adolescents. Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of the Corona …

the self-reported gender profit gap varies considerably based on the time horizon used in the survey, from 11% to 29 …%. This gender reporting gap raises concerns about the use of self-reported data for business measures. These differences … could also considerably underestimate the gender gap in business performance, especially in developing countries …