Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education …-India level are robust to the statistical method and the education expenditure measure, while they are more sensitive to changes …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

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 …

and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically … reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on the …

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 examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been … disadvantage is particularly higher for younger girls in the family. The extent of gender bias in private school enrolment is … to private schools holding other factors constant and controlling for selection into school enrollment, and this …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender …-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …