patent with a lead female inventor, a patent with a male lead inventor would have received 12% more citations. These effects … female lead inventors, while patent examiners of both genders appear to be more even-handed. The under-recognition of female …

We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation … patent approval. This gender gap does not seem to be impacted by the gender of the examiner of the application. When we focus … from the random assignment of patent examiners within technology fields, allowing us to find the causal impact of examiner …

This paper analyzes the gender of inventors in international patent applications. We compile a worldwide gender …-name dictionary, which includes 6.2 million names for 182 different countries to disambiguate the gender of PCT inventors. Our results … suggest that there is a gender imbalance in PCT applications, but the proportion of women inventors is improving over time. We …

We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters … perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these … gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender …

We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters … perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these … gender stereotypes in recruiters’ minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender …

over 1.5 million patents between 1980 and 2015, we find significant gender differences in inventors’ patent citations …This paper studies gender inequality in the recognition of innovations. Using modern natural language processing on …. Changing the gender structure of an inventor team from all-female to all-male increases the probability of omitting an all …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …