We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls’ school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871. …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount …

This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia … heterogeneity. We argue that serfdom hampered peasants’ demand for education whereas the successive emancipation triggered a demand …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … controlling for individual characteristics does not offset the gender gap, but our results indicate that the gap is eroded by high …

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …

aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …