gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … controlling for individual characteristics does not offset the gender gap, but our results indicate that the gap is eroded by high …

What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility …-time employment for women, including mothers. The West German system by contrast deterred women in general, and mothers in particular … this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are …

The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment … affected women’s emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The … staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age women experienced …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women's own labor supply …

on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains … substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary …

marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles …, this implies higher saving rates by young men and lower saving rates by young women than in less traditional countries, the … opposite being the case with saving rates of married women relative to those of married men. We establish the relevance of …