in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects … for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within the province, village-level variation in gender attitudes confirm …

This paper explores the contribution of biological factors in explaining gender differences in educational performance … traditional gender norms can explain this finding, implying that our results are not just driven by biology but materialize …

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …

causes of-the gender gap in academic publishing: length of peer review. Using detailed administrative data from an economics … that all gender gaps decline-and eventually disappear-as the same referee reviews more papers. This pattern suggests novice …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …