As part of our intersectionality statement, the GAP team aims to expand the share of GAP’s content that takes an intersectional approach to gender policy and closing gender gaps. The summaries on GAP that take this lens are listed below, with links to individual summaries.
Gender and Age
Gender and Culture
Culture, Institutions, and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China
Electoral Gender Quotas And Attitudes Toward Traditional Leaders: A Policy Experiment In Lesotho
Emirati Women do not Shy Away from Competition: Evidence from a Patriarchal Society in Transition
Gender Differences In Competition: Evidence From A Matrilineal And A Patriarchal Society
Political Reservation and Substantive Representation: Evidence from Indian Village Councils
What Explains Low Female Political Representation? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan
Gender and Race
Asian Communities
Who Can Lean In? The Intersecting Role of Race and Gender in Negotiations
Black Communities
Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates
Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?
Ethnic Variation in Gender-STEM Stereotypes and STEM Participation: An Intersectional Approach
Going it alone: Competition increases the attractiveness of minority status
In Good Company: When Gender Diversity Boosts a Company’s Reputation
Were California’s Decarceration efforts smart?
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity
(Sex) Crime and Punishment in the #MeToo Era: How the Public Views Rape
Hispanic/Latinx Communities
Intersectional patterns of prejudice confrontation by White, heterosexual, and cisgender allies
Do School Counselors Exhibit Bias in Recommending Students for Advanced Coursework?
Were California’s Decarceration efforts smart?
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity
Are You My Mentor? A Field Experiment on Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Self-Starters
Middle Eastern and Arabic communities
Intersectional patterns of prejudice confrontation by White, heterosexual, and cisgender allies
Communities of Color in the U.S.
Looking up and looking out: Career mobility effects of demographic similarity among professionals
More Than Public Service: A Field Experiment on Job Advertisements and Diversity in the Police
The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training
Gender and Performance: Evidence from School Assignment by Randomized Lottery
Gender and Socioeconomic Status
Challenge-seeking and the gender wage gap: A lab-in-the-field experiment with cleaning personnel
Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
Class Advantage, Commitment Penalty: The Gendered Effect of Social Class Signals in an Elite Labor Market
The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India
Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India
Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum
Impact of Oportunidades on Skilled Attendance at Delivery in Rural Areas
Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women
Work-Family Programs and Nonwork Networks: Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment
How an Earnings Supplement Can Affect Union Formation among Low-Income Single Mothers
Trans and Nonbinary Identities
Defending the Sex/Gender Binary: The Role of Gender Identification and Need for Closure
The Effects of Gender Neuroessentialism on Transprejudice: An Experimental Study
Transgender prejudice reduction and opinions on transgender rights: Results from a mediation analysis on experimental data
Using experiments to understand public attitudes towards transgender rights
What’s in a pronoun: Exploring gender pronouns as an organizational identity-safety cue among sexual and gender minorities
Similarity in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development