Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based …

Women are often perceived as more compliant than men; however, the literature provides inconclusive evidence. Using a … information on weakly non-compliant peer behavior. We find that the recommendation strongly affects behavior but more so for women … responses in men and women. In the second experiment (N=522), we elicit empirical and normative expectations about behavior in …

-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

Women are severely underrepresented in American politics, especially among Republicans. This underrepresentation may … result from women being less willing to run for office, from voter bias against women, or from political structures that make … it more difficult for women to compete. Here we show how support for female candidates varies by voters’ party …

IPV is highest when men and women are jointly targeted. Due to systematic gender differences in preferences, our …We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by women only, men only, or both … in rural Pakistan, targeted at men, women, or both. Our empirical findings confirm the prediction that the likelihood of …