We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … if they lose. In the Dutch Math Olympiad, this means that girls who do not make the top 1000, and therefore do not … advance to the next round, are less likely to compete again one year later while there is no effect on boys. In an additional …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U ….S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U ….S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no … statistical gender differences. These results and broader patterns documented in the study are consistent with significant … heterogeneity in competitiveness across both men and women, with field and career sorting resulting in differences (in gender …

, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …