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 …

This study examines the interplay of co-determination law and board gender quotas using novel board-director panel data … were more gender diverse before the gender quota. Difference-in-differences estimation results reveal that the differential … effect of employee representation on gender diversity is negative after implementing the quota. Boards with employee …

lottery-induced experience asking a question, or with years of service. However, the gender gap almost fully closes after a … gender gaps in adversarial settings. …

and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research publications. This increase is driven by research focused on female … subjects and gender differences. While coeducation led to a compositional shift with more women and researchers interested in … gender topics, much of the increase comes from male incumbent researchers shifting their research focus toward gender …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers’ perceptions of gender norms on their employment … gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender … share of mothers who misperceive gender norms as overly conservative. The treatment also shifts mothers’ own labor …

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 …

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 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 …