gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college … majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …

patriarchal regions. Education, English language skills and the use of different information sources like TV and radio explain a …

This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971 …–2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

force participation of the wife of her son. These results indicate that the transmission of gender role attitudes …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs ….This article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

Gender inequality in access to resources remains persistent in rural areas in developing countries. To better … understand the mechanisms responsible for gender inequality, we start from the observation that access to resources in rural … important to study the influence of gender on resource sharing while taking account of the social networks of men and women. To …

While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly … wide range of societal inequalities that are not directly related to gender. It is also observed in other parts of the … science and reading. Such findings highlight how differences in socio-economic and cultural factors can affect gender gaps in …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

We investigate two alternative explanations why men may hold more stocks than women. Apart from a gender difference in … risk aversion, gender differences in either optimism or in perceived risk of financial markets might cause men to hold more … issues, including the economy and the stock market. After taking differences in optimism into account systematic gender …