This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …

traits on gender differences in career chances.We compare manager’s and other white collar employees in Germany’s private … signifcant gender differences in personal traits, multivariate estimations made clear that these differences cannot explain … gender differences in career chances. Nevertheless, personality traits might indeed play a role but more indirectly: Some of …

looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …

This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender … of naturalized German citizens, gender differences in the amount of remittances disappear. This can be explained by the …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …