period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …. The second generation's education levels are also significantly positively affected by that of their parents, with a …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large … administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender …

women. The policy equalizes the educational attainment of urban and rural children substantially. The urban-rural gap in the … evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap. …

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …