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 …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self …-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is … market, as well as future earnings and promotions. In this paper, we discuss the major barriers reducing women's labor force …

.4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and … associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 …

and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the … share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … investigate whether the rise in female board representation was accompanied by a change in gender differences in board member …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …

women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study …

research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …