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 …

difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …

Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … this mechanism. We find that in countries that are historically more gender-equal the tax system today is more … redistributive. At the individual level, we find that in more gender equal countries gender differences in redistributive preferences …

In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to …. We estimate the impact of the law on men’s wages, women’s wages, and the gender pay gap using administrative data. The … results from a regression discontinuity design suggest that the wage transparency law did not change wages or the gender wage …

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 …

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …