I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives to save impact long-run economic outcomes …

behavior of an unchanging median voter whose gender preferences were not satisfied by the suppliers of candidates for office …

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and gender of their employees in job ads. We study … the interaction of advertised requests for age and gender on one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that firms …' explicit gender requests shift dramatically away from women and towards men when firms are seeking older (as opposed to younger …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and … likely to hold the view. As a benchmark, classmates' average gender attitudes have a similar effect size. We find that …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries--in education, personal autonomy, and more …--explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender … inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. I argue that while …

developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in …-grade and student gender by grade fixed effects, we find that both male and female teachers are more effective at teaching … students of their own gender; (3) However, female teachers are more effective overall, resulting in girls' test scores …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …