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on Gender |
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Issue of 2026–09–21
two papers chosen by Jan Sauermann, Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk Utvärdering |
| By: | Olivér Ujvárossy (ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies); Hubert János Kiss (ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies; Corvinus University of Budapest) |
| Abstract: | We study whether classroom gender composition is associated with adolescents' risk-taking and willingness to compete. Using lab-in-the-field data from 1, 108 students in 53 classes from nine Hungarian secondary schools, we relate incentivized measures of both outcomes to the share of girls in the class. School fixed effects compare students across classes within the same school, and we interpret these comparisons as conditional associations because class composition is not randomly assigned. Student-level regressions show robust gender gaps: girls are less risk-taking and less willing to compete than boys. Classroom gender composition, however, is not systematically associated with either outcome. Flexible specifications and analyses of boys and class-level gender gaps likewise reveal no consistent pattern. |
| Keywords: | Gender composition; Risk-taking; Willingness to compete; Classroom peers; Adolescents |
| JEL: | C80 C90 D91 I21 J16 |
| Date: | 2026–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:has:discpr:2612 |
| By: | Sascha O. Becker; Ana Fernandes; Nurlan Lalayev; Doris Weichselbaumer; Ana Margarida Fernandes |
| Abstract: | We study gender differences in employers' responses to commuting distance using data from a large-scale correspondence test in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. A 10 km increase in driving distance reduces women’s probability of receiving an interview invitation by 1.8 percentage points, around 9 percent of the mean female invitation rate, while commuting distance has no corresponding effect for men. The gender difference is statistically significant and robust to alternative distance measures and thresholds, firms’ rural or urban location, and local labor-market tightness. The female distance penalty does not vary detectably with applicants' reported marital status or the presence of children, providing no support for screening based on these observed indicators of household responsibilities. |
| Keywords: | gender discrimination, commuting, labor market, field experiment, Germany, Switzerland, Austria |
| JEL: | C93 J16 J61 J71 R41 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12989 |