personnel management. We report on a field experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields of training and career … competition. Thus, patterns in non-STEM fields conform to the usual claims of gender differences. However, among those in STEM … fields, we find no statistical gender differences. Results hold under a series of alternative specifications, controls, and …

We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality, we … find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership with no …

experiment to test several hypotheses on effective means to attract minority candidates for top professional careers. By randomly …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … where an individual competes against a target based on the previous performance of one anonymised person of unknown gender …

In this study, we investigate the extent and mechanisms of gender-based discrimination in urban Ecuador's hiring … practices, a critical issue for understanding persistent gender disparities and informing policy. Using an artifactual field … experiment with 392 recruiters evaluating observationally equivalent male and female job candidates, we uncover a significant …

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any … – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender … heterogeneity that we test by means of a real-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information on …

than male students in booking rooms for team meetings. I also find that gender difference in undertaking this logistical … though booking a room involves a relatively small (time) cost, such costs can add up, and also contribute to gender … stereotyping in allocation of tasks in other team settings …

) basketball teams. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team's risk-taking, a finding that …We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA … effect on winning a game, female head coaches could improve their team's success by adopting more risk-taking. …

manager and the owner have a different gender, we find no such differences with male-only firms. Hence, interestingly banks … seem to assume that women invariably play second fiddle in the mixed-gender firms. We also show that discrimination between …

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is … benefits of being elected are enjoyed solely by male leaders. However, this gender difference disappears with repeated …