The share of women in political offices has increased considerably over the past few
decades in almost every country in the world. Does this matter for policy outcomes? This is …

Understanding whether labor market discrimination explains inferior labor market outcomes
for many groups has drawn the attention of labor economists for decades—at least since the …

Abstract Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010
period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage …

The growth of the “gig” economy generates worker flexibility that, some have speculated, will
favour women. We explore this by examining labour supply choices and earnings among …

School closures occurred extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic, and occur in other
settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. The cost of school closures has …

Gender differences in task allocations may sustain vertical gender segregation in labor
markets. We examine the allocation of a task that everyone prefers be completed by …

This paper develops a unified framework to synthesize the growing stream of positive
research on the role of individual decision makers in shaping observed accounting …

Despite decades of progress, women remain underrepresented in the upper part of the
earnings distribution. We review the recent research trying to explain this phenomenon. After …

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back
and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a …

In this article, we explore the process and implications of stereotype threat for women in
leadership, broadly construed. First, we provide a brief background on the phenomenon of …