We measure the quality of applications for online peer-to-peer lending in Germany and relate it to gender … discrimination. The data context allows summarizing application quality as a single numeric measure, the expected internal rate of … return. The measure serves as a control variable and is interacted with the applicants' gender. We find that women enjoy …

Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The … question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the … uncover the relationship between occupational characteristics and the Gender Pay Gap. To do so, I apply a two-step approach …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab …