We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
This paper examines the impact of descriptive representation in comparative perspective. The goals are to establish (1) whether descriptive…
We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants…
Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences,
yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual…
Women face a compensation negotiation dilemma in which they have to weigh the economic benefits of asking for higher pay with the social…
We offer a dyadic perspective on gender and persistence in negotiation, focusing on the interactive effects of persister gender and…
Why do Arab states lag behind the rest of the world in gender equality? Social structural, cultural, and institutional accounts offer…