Entrepreneurship training for women was found to be much more effective in increasing business activity for those who participated with a friend.

Men’s high willingness to compete in individual tournaments decreases dramatically in team tournaments, while women are equally willing to compete individually or as part of a team.

A multidimensional intervention program improves the lives of the extreme poor with effects lasting up to a year later, including increasing women’s empowerment in the short-term.

A business skills training program for female microfinance clients in Peru had little effect improving business performance and did not increase women’s decision making power at home.

While generally women are more risk averse than men, when women have even small amount of income, they are more willing to take future risks. Instead, men increase their risk-taking after winning, even if the odds do not favor them subsequently.

When an employer clearly states that employees can negotiate their salaries, the gender gap in job applications and negotiation closes.

When a woman is the only female in a high-prestige work group, she is unlikely to recruit another woman to her team for fear of being outperformed or undervalued, however, she is just as likely to recruit another woman when the high-prestige work group is already majority female.

Lowering the barriers to education by providing free school uniforms lowered girls’ and boys’ dropout rates, reduced teen pregnancy within marriage, and decreased teen marriage rates.

Providing information about male and female employees’ individual contributions to a group task, or information about female employees’ competence in previous tasks, reduces negative assessments about women’s contribution to group work.

Women who initiate negotiations in the workplace are more likely to be penalized than their male counterparts.