Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …

elementary-school children can increase children’s interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls’ interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …

The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon … precise mechanisms behind the gender difference in competitive responsiveness are still not fully uncovered. In this paper, we … competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …

We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender … differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap … beliefs are exogenously aligned by implementing sabotage via strategy method, the gender gap in sabotage choices disappears …

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …

measures like the gender wage gap …