We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We find robust evidence that female primary school attainment … Italian cities among themselves and with the rest of the world. The effect of medieval commerce is particularly strong at the …

–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in …

presented here alongside the UNDP’s HDI for the world and its main regions since the late nineteenth century. Social dimensions …

that mortality risks are a major source of risks in returns to education in developing countries. We show that, in the …. Uncertain returns to education, endogenous mortality or imperfect capital markets unambiguously increase child labour. When the …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …

attainment. We find that Akan boys exposed to the reform received on average 0.9 less years of education, a 10 percent reduction … education to substitute for land inheritance. Our findings suggest that in the presence of customary norms, land reform and the …

This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth century Prussia …

selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …