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The Effect of Cash, Vouchers and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador

Cash and in-kind transfers targeted to women reduce the prevalence of moderate intimate partner violence within households.

Melissa Hidrobo, Amber Peterman, Lori Heise (2016)
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Performance-Support Bias And The Gender Pay Gap Among Stockbrokers

In stock brokerages, women are assigned smaller accounts, which leads to a gender wage gap in performance-based pay.

Janice Fanning Madden (2012)
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Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability

In mixed-sex environments, women are more likely than men to perform tasks that do not lead to promotion.     

Linda Babcock, Maria P. Recalde, Lise Vesterlund, Laurie Weingart (2017)
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Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters

Gender gaps in risk taking and altruism—two differences offered as contributing factors to wage and labor market gender gaps—begin by adolescence, where girls are found to be more altruistic, less risk taking, and equally as competitive as boys, except in the area of math.

Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen, Eva Ranehill (2013)
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Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction

Women excel under majority rule when they are the majority; when the minority of a deliberative body, women are more advantaged under unanimous rule.

Tali Mendelberg, Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Baxter Oliphant (2014)
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Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa

A combination of vocational and life skill training improves adolescent girls’ income-generating opportunities and social empowerment while reducing early childbearing and desired fertility rates.

Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman (2020)
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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China

Formal employment reduces fertility rates for women in China.

Hai Fang, Karen Eggleston, John Rizzo, Richard Zeckhauser (2013)
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Looking up and looking out: Career mobility effects of demographic similarity among professionals.

Workgroup sex and race composition affects turnover and career mobility.

Kathleen McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman (2013)
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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Business teams with an equal number of women and men perform better in terms of sales and profits, than do male-dominated teams.

Sander Hoogendoorn, Hessel Oosterbeek, Mirjam van Praag (2013)
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Gender Roles and Non-Cooperative Behavior: Field Experiment on the Effect of Asymmetric Information on Intra-Household Allocation in Ghana

Unanticipated windfall income is used for shared household needs when allocated to a husband or wife publicly, but behavior changes when it is given privately – men spend on personal consumption, while women save or loan to personal networks.

Carolina Castilla, Thomas Walker (2013)
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The Effect of Cash, Vouchers and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador

Cash and in-kind transfers targeted to women reduce the prevalence of moderate intimate partner violence within households.

Melissa Hidrobo, Amber Peterman, Lori Heise (2016)
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Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability

In mixed-sex environments, women are more likely than men to perform tasks that do not lead to promotion.     

Linda Babcock, Maria P. Recalde, Lise Vesterlund, Laurie Weingart (2017)
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Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction

Women excel under majority rule when they are the majority; when the minority of a deliberative body, women are more advantaged under unanimous rule.

Tali Mendelberg, Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Baxter Oliphant (2014)
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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China

Formal employment reduces fertility rates for women in China.

Hai Fang, Karen Eggleston, John Rizzo, Richard Zeckhauser (2013)
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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Business teams with an equal number of women and men perform better in terms of sales and profits, than do male-dominated teams.

Sander Hoogendoorn, Hessel Oosterbeek, Mirjam van Praag (2013)
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Performance-Support Bias And The Gender Pay Gap Among Stockbrokers

In stock brokerages, women are assigned smaller accounts, which leads to a gender wage gap in performance-based pay.

Janice Fanning Madden (2012)
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Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters

Gender gaps in risk taking and altruism—two differences offered as contributing factors to wage and labor market gender gaps—begin by adolescence, where girls are found to be more altruistic, less risk taking, and equally as competitive as boys, except in the area of math.

Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen, Eva Ranehill (2013)
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Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa

A combination of vocational and life skill training improves adolescent girls’ income-generating opportunities and social empowerment while reducing early childbearing and desired fertility rates.

Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman (2020)
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Looking up and looking out: Career mobility effects of demographic similarity among professionals.

Workgroup sex and race composition affects turnover and career mobility.

Kathleen McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman (2013)
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Gender Roles and Non-Cooperative Behavior: Field Experiment on the Effect of Asymmetric Information on Intra-Household Allocation in Ghana

Unanticipated windfall income is used for shared household needs when allocated to a husband or wife publicly, but behavior changes when it is given privately – men spend on personal consumption, while women save or loan to personal networks.

Carolina Castilla, Thomas Walker (2013)
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