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Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work

Criminalizing sex work in low-income settings like Indonesia decreases earnings of the female sex workers and increases the prevalence of STI infections.
Lisa Cameron, Jennifer Seager, Manisha Shah (2021)
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Opt-out choice framing attenuates gender differences in the decision to compete in the laboratory and in the field

Restructuring competitions in lab settings and in the workplace so that competition is the default significantly reduces the gender gap and may decrease gender imbalances in leadership positions or career trajectories in organizations.
Joyce He, Sonia Kang, Nicola Lacetera (2021)
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Gender training and female empowerment: Experimental evidence from Vietnam

Participation in gender and entrepreneurship training can help increase women’s bargaining power in household decision making.
Erwin Bulte, Robert Lensink, Nhung Vu (2016)
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

A program in India that provided female students with access to bicycles increased secondary school enrollment for girls and narrowed the gender gap in secondary school enrollment.
Karthik Muralidharan, Nishith Prakash (2017)
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A Female Leadership Trust Advantage in Times of Crisis: Under What Conditions?

Female leaders exhibiting high levels of relational behaviors are trusted more than male leaders exhibiting high levels of relational behaviors when organizations are in crises with low uncertainty about consequences.
Corinne Post, Ioana M. Latu, Liuba Y. Belkin (2019)
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The effect of California’s paid family leave policy on parent health: A quasi-experimental study

Paid family leave policies support the health of families with newborn children, with particular improvements in health status and psychological distress in mothers and particular benefits in reduced alcohol use in fathers.
Bethany C. Lee, Sepideh Modrek, Justin S. White, Akansha Batra, Daniel F. Collin, Rita Hamad (2020)
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Negotiating Femininity: Gender-Relevant Primes Improve Women’s Economic Performance in Gender Role Incongruent Negotiations

Simple strategies that prime women to focus on past negotiation successes or prepare by imagining helping a friend negotiate can help women succeed in negotiations.
Julia B. Bear, Linda Babcock (2017)
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Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians

Exposure to gender role models increases women’s interest in political current events but does not increase their ambition to become involved in politics.  
Florian Foos, Fabrizio Gilardi (2020)
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Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias: A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time

Anonymizing information, such as gender, about grant applicants reduced gender bias, particularly in male reviewers, who tended to rate female applicants significantly worse than male applicants.
Stefanie K. Johnson, Jessica F. Kirk (2020)
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Going it alone: Competition increases the attractiveness of minority status

When faced with competitive workplaces, women and African Americans are less likely to join teams that include other women or African Americans than when faced with non-competitive workplaces.
Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman (2020)
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Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work

Criminalizing sex work in low-income settings like Indonesia decreases earnings of the female sex workers and increases the prevalence of STI infections.
Lisa Cameron, Jennifer Seager, Manisha Shah (2021)
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Gender training and female empowerment: Experimental evidence from Vietnam

Participation in gender and entrepreneurship training can help increase women’s bargaining power in household decision making.
Erwin Bulte, Robert Lensink, Nhung Vu (2016)
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A Female Leadership Trust Advantage in Times of Crisis: Under What Conditions?

Female leaders exhibiting high levels of relational behaviors are trusted more than male leaders exhibiting high levels of relational behaviors when organizations are in crises with low uncertainty about consequences.
Corinne Post, Ioana M. Latu, Liuba Y. Belkin (2019)
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Negotiating Femininity: Gender-Relevant Primes Improve Women’s Economic Performance in Gender Role Incongruent Negotiations

Simple strategies that prime women to focus on past negotiation successes or prepare by imagining helping a friend negotiate can help women succeed in negotiations.
Julia B. Bear, Linda Babcock (2017)
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Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias: A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time

Anonymizing information, such as gender, about grant applicants reduced gender bias, particularly in male reviewers, who tended to rate female applicants significantly worse than male applicants.
Stefanie K. Johnson, Jessica F. Kirk (2020)
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Opt-out choice framing attenuates gender differences in the decision to compete in the laboratory and in the field

Restructuring competitions in lab settings and in the workplace so that competition is the default significantly reduces the gender gap and may decrease gender imbalances in leadership positions or career trajectories in organizations.
Joyce He, Sonia Kang, Nicola Lacetera (2021)
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

A program in India that provided female students with access to bicycles increased secondary school enrollment for girls and narrowed the gender gap in secondary school enrollment.
Karthik Muralidharan, Nishith Prakash (2017)
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The effect of California’s paid family leave policy on parent health: A quasi-experimental study

Paid family leave policies support the health of families with newborn children, with particular improvements in health status and psychological distress in mothers and particular benefits in reduced alcohol use in fathers.
Bethany C. Lee, Sepideh Modrek, Justin S. White, Akansha Batra, Daniel F. Collin, Rita Hamad (2020)
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Does Exposure to Gender Role Models Increase Women’s Political Ambition? A Field Experiment with Politicians

Exposure to gender role models increases women’s interest in political current events but does not increase their ambition to become involved in politics.  
Florian Foos, Fabrizio Gilardi (2020)
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Going it alone: Competition increases the attractiveness of minority status

When faced with competitive workplaces, women and African Americans are less likely to join teams that include other women or African Americans than when faced with non-competitive workplaces.
Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman (2020)
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