Misperceived social norms: Women working outside the home in Saudi Arabia

L Bursztyn, AL González… - American economic …, 2020 - aeaweb.org
We show that the vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support
women working outside the home (WWOH) and substantially underestimate support by …

Fearless woman: Financial literacy and stock market participation

Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of
knowledge or, rather, a lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to …

Stereotypes in financial literacy: Evidence from PISA

L Bottazzi, A Lusardi - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
We examine gender differences in financial literacy among high school students in Italy
using data from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Gender …

'Acting wife': Marriage market incentives and labor market investments

L Bursztyn, T Fujiwara, A Pallais - American Economic Review, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable
traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA …

Women and STEM

S Kahn, D Ginther - 2017 - nber.org
Researchers from economics, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines have studied the
persistent under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and …

Gender and preferences in the labor market: Insights from experiments

L Lozano, E Ranehill, E Reuben - Handbook of labor, human resources …, 2022 - Springer
Despite increased female educational attainment and labor market participation, labor
markets around the world remain characterized by vertical and horizontal gender …

Knowing when to ask: The cost of leaning in

CL Exley, M Niederle… - Journal of Political …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Women's reluctance to negotiate is often used to explain the gender wage gap, popularizing
the push for women to “lean in” and negotiate more. Examining an environment in which …

Navigating barriers faced by women in leadership positions in the US construction industry: a retrospective on women's continued struggle in a male-dominated …

S Lekchiri, JD Kamm - European Journal of Training and …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This investigation examined the challenges faced by women in leadership
positions in the US construction industry. The overall purpose of this study was to gain a …

Pursuing quality: How search costs and uncertainty magnify gender-based double standards in a multistage evaluation process

TL Botelho, M Abraham - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite lab-based evidence supporting the argument that double standards—by which one
group is unfairly held to stricter standards than another—explain observed gender …