differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …

are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these … results based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that there are significant gender differences in …

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial … and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry … one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship – education – and approximately three times larger than …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal … gender of the previous child in three states, in a direction consistent with son-preference. Comparison of other covariate …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …