growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent … participation. The paper discusses evidence on educational policies that both widen and reduce gender gaps in educational outcomes. …

The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …: girls perform relatively better in both maths and reading in societies where gender equality is enhanced, and the effect …

paper investigates variations in recruitment to self-employment and in self-employment performance by gender and by …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings …