From the perspective of historical review, the methodology of economics develops from
qualitative to quantitative, from a small sampling of data to a vast amount of data. Because of …

Social influence is distributed unequally between males and females in many mammalian
societies. In human societies, gender inequality is particularly evident in access to …

Using a newly constructed longitudinal data set of 30,000 Italian individuals, we analyse
whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college …

This paper explores the recent efforts by the corporate world and public policy to increase
the number of women in leadership positions in the workplace. We review and empirically …

I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by
physicians' preference for referring to specialists of the same gender. Analyzing …

We connect gender disparities in research output and collaboration patterns in economics.
We first document large gender gaps in research output. These gaps persist across fifty …

We study how the random assignment of new students to introductory-week groups shapes
subsequent friendship networks. Both women and men report being much more likely to be …

Cooperative networks are essential features of human society. Evolutionary theory
hypothesizes that networks are used differently by men and women, yet the bulk of evidence …

Gender differences in networking have been cited as an important reason behind gender
earnings and promotion gaps. Despite this fact there is comparatively little evidence on …

This paper uses firm-level data and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods to
investigate the effects of participation in formal networking activities and of female …