elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls' interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

migrant women in Germany. Considering the well-established evidence that immigrant women work less than natives, with statuses … market theory, and the less examined in German research cultural hypothesis. Migrant women's employment status is, in … be less reliable predictors of women's labor supply: higher education attained abroad is only marginally related to women …

improves school attendance of young and teenage girls, but reduces school attendance of young women (ages 18-22). We also find … members may affect girls' and young women’s education: relaxation of budget constraints, increase in household work, change in …' schooling turns from positive to negative with girls' age; this implies that migration may be detrimental to women’s empowerment …

show that more exposure to female peers during childhood causally decreases the extent of agreement with traditional gender …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …