decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures … is the sole source of differential gender outcomes. …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …

This study uses a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive … providing insights into the underpinnings of the factors hypothesized to be determinants of the observed gender differences in …

Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have … computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational … process. Home computers might be very useful for completing school assignments, but they might also represent a distraction …

Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students …

This paper analyzes the impact of student loans for higher education on enrollment, dropout decisions, and earnings. We … SGL program increased the probability of enrollment and reduced the probability of dropping out from tertiary education … program. We attribute this negative result to the design of the SGL program, which has incentivized higher education …