Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …

that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …

that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … a remarkable persistence. We examine one particular source of persistence, namely the prevalence of gendered networks … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …

characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …

characteristic of same-age neighbors - their gender - affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness … in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …