Search Results - subject_exact:"Gender discrimination"

Trade, competition, and the gender composition of employment : evidence from Viet Nam

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Lee, Sooyoung - 2026

As countries in Asia and the Paciﬁc continue to integrate into the global economy, what are the implications for women's labor market participation in these countries? The literature on international trade considers the eﬀects of import competition and export orientation on gender gaps in...

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Assessing the effectiveness of workers’ selection exams : the case of Banca d'Italia

Pereda-Fernández, Santiago - 2026

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The gendered cost of staying : how gender inequality increases female migration

Pañeda-Fernández, Irene - 2026 - February 2026 (revised June 2026)

Women increasingly migrate as primary movers, yet how gender inequality shapes this process remains unclear due to methodological limitations. Competing theories predict that greater gender equality should facilitate women's migration by loosening norms and expanding women's aspirations, whereas...

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The gendered cost of staying: How gender inequality increases female migration

Pañeda-Fernández, Irene - 2026

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The gendered cost of staying : how gender inequality increases female migration

Pañeda-Fernández, Irene - 2026

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Gender bias in student evaluations of teaching : do debiasing campaigns work?

Ayllón, Sara; Zamora, Camila - 2025

This paper presents the results of a field experiment aimed at reducing the gender bias in teaching evaluations at a higher education institution. In the intervention, before they completed the teaching evaluation questionnaire, students were individually randomized in three groups. One third...

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Measuring workplace sexual harassment : a review

Adams, Abi; Walia, Daksh - 2025

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Do judges exhibit gender bias? : evidence from the universe of divorce cases in China

Cai, Xiqian; Li, Pei; Luo, Qinyue; Song, Hong; Xie, Huihua - 2025

Does gender identity affect judicial decisions? This paper provides novel evidence of in-group gender bias in the judicial decisions for almost all divorce cases in China. Exploiting the effectively random assignment of cases to judges, the analysis finds that female judges are 1.2 percentage...

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Do Judges Exhibit Gender Bias? Evidence from the Universe of Divorce Cases in China

Cai, Xiqian; Li, Pei; Lu, Yi; Song, Hong - 2022

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The influence of gender discrimination and gender equality on corporate tax aggressiveness

Castillo-Merino, David; García Blandón, Josep - 2025

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Gender differences in job requirements : change within careers and across cohorts

Schwartz, Shoshana; Cappelli, Peter; Yang, Yang - 2025

"We examine differences in jobs held by men and women based on a measure not used before, the standard human resources measures of "knowledge, skills, and abilities" generated by job analyses. While there is an abundance of evidence on gender disparities in pay, we know much less in detail about...

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Aggregate implications of barriers to female entrepreneurship

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2024

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Aggregate implications of barriers to female entrepreneurship

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2024

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Perceived abilities and gender stereotypes within the household : experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Nani, Carlotta - 2024

Is it possible to improve women's agency by providing information about their abilities? Using a lab experiment in the field, I study how perceived abilities and gender stereotypes shape intra-household dynamics. I use an incentivized decision-making game with 525 married couples from 42 rural...

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Perceived abilities and gender stereotypes within the household: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Nani, Carlotta - 2024

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Trade and labor market segregation in Colombia

Ederington, Josh; Minier, Jenny; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2024

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Think star, think men? : implicit star performer theories

Villamor, Isabel; Aguinis, Herman - 2024

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Do Americans favor female or male politicians? : evidence from experimental elections

Poutvaara, Panu; Graefe, Andreas - 2024

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...

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Do Americans favor female or male politicians? : evidence from experimental elections

Poutvaara, Panu; Graefe, Andreas - 2024

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Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861-1921

Beltrán Tapia, Francisco J.; Cappelli, Gabriele - 2024

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Gender pay gap in the gig economy

Dong, Zhiqiang; Peng, Juan; Liu, Shanshi - 2024

The rapid ascent of digital platforms and the gig economy has prompted concerns about the gender pay gap. The results show that in the gig economy, gender continues to be a crucial determinant of workers' earnings, with women earning 85% of what men earn on a monthly basis. Nevertheless, in...

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Are women blamed more for giving incorrect financial advice?

Abel, Martin; Bomfim, Emma; Cisneros, Izzy; Coyle, Jackson - 2024

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Are women blamed more for giving incorrect financial advice?

Abel, Martin; Bomfim, Emma; Cisneros, Izzy; Coyle, Jackson - 2024

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Firm survival and gender composition of employment : evidence from Vietnam

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Lee, Sooyoung - 2024

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Macroeconomic effects of reducing the gender pay gap in an emerging economy

Ávila-Montealegre, Oscar Iván; Grajales-Olarte, Anderson - 2026

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Socioeconomic status and gender gaps in educational outcomes across the life course : new distributional evidence

Nguyen, Ha; Chapman, Bruce James; Le, Huong; Royer, Heather - 2026

This study leverages whole-of-population linked census-administrative data to examine gender gaps in educational outcomes from early primary school through early adulthood in Australia and to assess the contribution of socioeconomic factors to these gaps. We find that females outperform males...

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Gender gap in physical activity : the role of conflicts and political instability

Di Domizio, Marco - 2026

This article takes as its starting point the warnings issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the perverse effects of a sedentary lifestyle on people's health, resulting in additional health expenditure that diverts significant resources away from other areas of public spending. The...

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De-biasing or backlash? : confronting prejudice among police officers in India

Amaral, Sofia; Chaney, Kim; Kaiser, Victoria; Prakash, … - 2026

Police officers' discretionary handling of gender-based violence (GBV) complaints is a critical and largely neglected barrier to justice in developing countries. We collaborate with the Madhya Pradesh Police in India, the second largest state, to conduct a lab-in-the-field randomized experiment...

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De-biasing or backlash? : confronting prejudice among police officers in India

Amaral, Sofia; Chaney, Kim; Kaiser, Victoria; Prakash, … - 2026

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The gender of opportunity : how gendered job titles affect job seeker attraction

Gorny, Paul Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Trenkle, Martin - 2026

Recruitment signals shape applicant pools. Across three studies, we examine whether genderfair (vs. generic masculine) German job titles affect application behavior and job seekers' beliefs about organizational culture. In a large-scale pre-registered field experiment, gender-fair titles...

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Gender differences in pension investment : the role of biased advice

Curi, Claudia; Dibiasi, Andreas; Ploner, Matteo; Tonin, … - 2026

We study whether gender-biased financial advice contributes to the gender gap in pension wealth. Using administrative records from four private pension funds in Italy, we document that women are ceteris paribus 8 percentage points less likely than men to choose stock-focused investment lines at...

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Gender differences in pension investment : the role of biased advice

Curi, Claudia; Dibiasi, Andreas; Ploner, Matteo; Tonin, … - 2026

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Gender differences in pension investment : the role of biased advice

Curi, Claudia; Dibiasi, Andreas; Ploner, Matteo; Tonin, … - 2026

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Household taxation, nonlinear occupations, and gender gaps

Denderski, Piotr; Obermeier, Tim - 2026

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2026

We document that women strategically sort into "family-friendly" sectors characterized by lower returns to experience but lower per-child penalties before the birth of their first child. This anticipatory sorting represents an ex-ante cost of motherhood that is entirely missed by conventional...

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2025

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Technology adoption and women's rights : evidence from Switzerland

Brey, Björn; Cefala, Edoardo; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - 2026

Gender equality and economic growth have historically tended to move together yet identifying causal effects has been difficult. This paper uses data on the support for female suffrage in Switzerland in order to explore the impact of technology adoption on gender norms. We argue that the early...

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Technology adoption and women's rights : evidence from Switzerland

Brey, Björn; Cefala, Edoardo; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - 2026

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Peer gender composition and university climate

Griselda, Silvia; Profeta, Paola; Savio, Giulia - 2026

Students' university experience includes both academic and non-academic outcomes, which are shaped by the educational environment in which students interact. We refer to this environment as university climate and measure it along three dimensions: conformity to masculinity-related attitudes and...

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Peer gender composition and university climate

Griselda, Silvia; Profeta, Paola; Savio, Giulia - 2026

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Peer gender composition and university climate

Griselda, Silvia; Profeta, Paola; Savio, Giulia - 2026

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Advancing gender rights at the Human Rights Council in times of backlash strategies from the 59th session

Khan, Ayesha; Michalko, Ján - 2026

In a context of high polarisation and long-term tensions over advancing gender equality, this report examines how negotiations at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2025 achieved some key successes, and managed to hold the line on gender rights in the face of backlash. Based in...

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Monetary policy transmission to consumption : inequalities by gender and race

Puig, Aina - 2026

This paper estimates the causal effects of monetary policy shocks on household consumption, with additional analysis of labor market and income responses, disaggregated by gender and race. I find that contractionary monetary policy reduces consumption more for black than white households, with...

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Beliefs about gender inequalities, narratives and support for gender quotas

Di Corato, Luca; Esposito, Federica; Montinari, Natalia - 2026

Gender quotas remain controversial despite evidence of their effectiveness in reducing labor-market gender inequality. We study how informational narratives about quotas affect support, and how effects depend on pre-existing causal beliefs about inequality. In a pre-registered survey experiment...

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Why female professors earn less : the role of retention negotiations and performance bonuses

Cieply, Isea; Barros, Laura; Silbersdorff, Alexander; … - 2026

How large is the gender pay gap among university professors, and how do institutional pay-setting mechanisms shape this disparity? This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the gender pay gap among professors at a renowned German university. Using detailed human resources data for the time...

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Gender gaps under comparable tasks : evidence from quasi-random assignment

Khaliliaraghi, Negar; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2026

Gender gaps in earnings persist even among high-skilled workers, partly because men and women often perform different tasks within and across jobs. We study a rare setting in which high-skilled men and women perform the same tasks under comparable conditions, allowing us to assess gender...

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Gender gaps under comparable tasks : evidence from quasirandom assignment

Khaliliaraghi, Negar; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2026

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Gender gaps under comparable tasks : evidence from quasi-random assignment

Khaliliaraghi, Negar; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2026

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Gender gaps under comparable tasks : evidence from quasi-random assignment

Khaliliaraghi, Negar; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2026

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Do firms share their profits equally with women and men? : the role of human capital, managerial positions and unions

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2026

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Do firms share their profits equally with women and men? : the role of human capital, managerial positions and unions

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2026

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Do firms share their profits equally with women and men? : the role of human capital, managerial positions and unions

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2026

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Biased promotions

Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Nikolowa, Radoslawa; … - 2026

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A growing gender divide? : gender-role attitudes among young adults across nine world regions over four decades

Pavelea, Alina-Maria; Matysiak, Anna - 2026

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Labor of love : gender and wage dynamics across the stages of life

Li, Shurui - 2026

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Gender gap in high-stakes exams : what role for exam preparation?

Bonneau, Cécile; Dousset, Léa - 2026

In this paper, we show that gender gaps in performance observed in high-stakes exams, relative to low-stakes exams, are partially shaped by the context of exam preparation. We examine the role of exam preparation using data from French elite STEM higher education programs. First, we document a...

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Bridging disclosure and action : the role of intermediaries in gender pay gap regulation

Curtis, Sally; William, Jananie; Reibnitz, Anna von; … - 2026

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Public-private sector wage gaps in Australia : extent, trends and gender

Birch, Elisa Rose; Preston, Alison - 2026

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Invisible Barriers : How Gender Norms Impact Financial Inclusion

Singh, Nisha; Koning, Antonique; Ledgerwood, Joanna - 2026

This Focus Note includes illustrative examples from successful initiatives around the world that demonstrate the potential of these strategies—from digital financial solutions that respect privacy concerns to data-driven approaches that challenge institutional biases. Development actors,...

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Closing the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship : Overcoming Challenges in Law and Practice for Female Entrepreneurs

Behr, Daniela M.; Xi, Yue - 2026

Despite significant strides toward gender equality, women around the world continue to encounter systemic obstacles that hinder their entrepreneurial success. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the barriers female entrepreneurs face and the solutions proposed to overcome these...

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Gender and Caste Nexus : Occupational Segregation across Indian Megacities

Thakur, Jyoti; Kartick, V - 2026

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Beyond backlash : how gender quotas empower women and shape workplace atitudes in Japanese hiring

Nihonsugi, Tsuyoshi; Kamijo, Yoshio; Taguchi, Satoshi; … - 2026

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Missing stars? : quantifying the gender gap in the assessment of gifted students

Eugster, Beatrix; Marquardt, Kelli; Sallin, Aurélien - 2026

Female students are less likely to be identified as intellectually gifted than male students when the identification process follows a two-stage procedure. We posit and quantify two mechanisms that explain this gender gap. First, at any level of IQ, but especially at high levels of IQ, male...

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2026

This paper studies how college major choices shape earnings and fertility outcomes. Using administrative data that link students' preferences, random assignment to majors, and post-college outcomes, we estimate the causal pecuniary and nonpecuniary returns to different fields of study. We...

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2025

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Quantile selection in the gender pay gap

Batbayar, Egshiglen; Breunig, Christoph; Haan, Peter; … - 2026

We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap. Our method employs instrumental variables that explain variation in the latent variable but, conditional on the latent process, do not directly affect selection. We provide semiparametric identification...

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Quantile selection in the gender pay gap

Batbayar, Egshiglen; Breunig, Christoph; Haan, Peter; … - 2026

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Quantile selection in the gender pay gap

Batbayar, Egshiglen; Breunig, Christoph; Haan, Peter; … - 2026

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Quantile selection in the gender pay gap

Batbayar, Egshiglen; Breunig, Christoph; Haan, Peter; … - 2026

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Gendered networking in international sport governance

Piggott, Lucy; Matthews, Jordan J. K.; Adriaanse, Johanna A. - 2026

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Unequal hiring wages and their impact on the gender pay gap

Pham, Tho; Schäfer, Daniel; Singleton, Carl - 2026 - First version: September 2024, this version: January 2026

National payroll data reveal that men are paid more than women when they enter firms in Great Britain. Although this hiring wage gap has narrowed over the past two decades, it still accounts for over two-thirds of the steady-state gender pay gap â€“ the wage gap that would eventually...

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Unequal hiring wages and their impact on the gender pay gap

Pham, Tho; Schaefer, Daniel; Singleton, Carl - 2024

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Understanding witness reporting of intimate partner violence

Echavarri, Rebeca; Garcia Prado, Ariadna; … - 2026

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Gender and intergenerational mobility : unequal economic outcomes between siblings

Leites, Martín; Vilá, Joan - 2026

This paper examines the role of sibling sex composition as a potential explanation of the transmission of parental advantages to the next generation. The presence of a brother affects the family environment and parents' decisions, influencing the siblings' labour market outcomes in the long...

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