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 …

Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries …. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender … on gender equality in achievement across different sources: the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an …

family background, thus face similar difficulties as migrant children. Our results point at more general inequalities in …We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a …Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … plausibly exogenous source of income variation. Rainfall shocks matter most for young children and monotonically decline with …