This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the
education gender gap and its evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first …

Across multiple studies, we investigate whether there are gender differences in preferences
for receiving performance feedback. We vary many features of the feedback context: whether …

This paper documents gender differences in the career paths of novice politicians. Using
trajectories of over 11,000 candidates for California local offices and a regression …

Decisions made by leaders please some people and upset others. We examine whether the
possibility of backlash has a differential impact on men's and women's self-selection into …

A better understanding of the determinants of idea/knowledge production remains critical for
long-run growth. Toward this end, this paper establishes two results using data from the …

While a growing number of studies have examined how incorporating contextualized
measures of high school performance may benefit traditionally underrepresented students at …

This article studies how early-stage entrepreneurs respond to negative feedback about the
quality of their ventures. We use data from new venture competitions, some of which …

Using Swedish population data, we document that girls outperform boys by a third of a
standard deviation in school grades, whereas a gap of similar magnitude but opposite sign …

In this article, we begin by taking stock of broad trends related to gender and mathematics,
focusing primarily on patterns within the United States. We then add some important nuance …

Using a controlled experiment, we study the dynamic effects of feedback on decision‐
making across verbal skills and math. Before feedback, men are more optimistic about their …