Despite progress made toward increasing women's interest and involvement in science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM), women continue to be underrepresented and …

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 and remedying women's underrepresentation in majority-male fields and
occupations require the recognition of a lesser-known form of cultural bias called masculine …

NATIONAL BESTSELLER• A leading economist answers one of today's trickiest questions:
Why do some great ideas make it big while others fail to take off?“Brilliant, practical, and …

INTRODUCTION Understanding determinants of gender differences in economic and social
domains has been of interest, both in academic and public debates. Previous research has …

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 …

Since the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the relationship between national
women leaders and their effectiveness in handling the COVID-19 crisis has received much …

This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we
present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of …

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 …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …