Research
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female leader is associated with electoral gains for women.
What Did You Do All Day? Maternal Education and Child Outcomes
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries. Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's educational outcomes even at these very low levels of education?
Petroleum Patriarchy? A Response to Ross
The notion of a “resource curse” has been most commonly applied in explaining why many countries apparently blessed with abundant reserves of nonrenewable mineral resources, such as Nigerian oil, Demo
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality.
The Global Gender Gap Report
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 position behind Finland (2).
Barack Obama: America’s First Gay President?
One of Us: Multilevel Models Examining the Impact of Descriptive Representation on Civic Engagement
This paper examines the impact of descriptive representation in comparative perspective.
Gender and Persistence in Negotiation: A Dyadic Perspective
We offer a dyadic perspective on gender and persistence in negotiation, focusing on the interactive effects of persister gender and naysayer gender.
Relational Accounts: A Strategy for Women Negotiating for Higher Compensation
Women face a compensation negotiation dilemma in which they have to weigh the economic benefits of asking for higher pay with the social risks of defying prescriptive sex stereotypes (Bowles, Babcock,
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