We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000
school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance …

We investigate how the gender gap in confidence affects the views that evaluators (eg,
employers) hold about men and women. We find the confidence gap is contagious, causing …

Labor market outcomes depend, in part, upon an individual's willingness to put him-or
herself forward for different opportunities. We use a series of experiments to explore gender …

Bayes' statistical rule remains the status quo for modeling belief updating in both normative
and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Some recent research has …

When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job
board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) …

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 …

We design an experiment that sheds light on the asymmetry in how men and women
interpret noisy feedback about relative standing and how this gender difference can affect …

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 …

I investigate men's limited entry into female-dominated sectors through a large-scale field
experiment. The design exogenously varies recruitment messages by showing photographs …

This paper studies a key element of discrimination, namely, when stereotypes translate into
discriminatory actions. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by …