This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women …'s standardized college admission tests amended the language used in its exams, making test language more gender neutral. We find that … the change to a more gender-neutral language was associated with a significant improvement in the performance of women on …

This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … aggregate. Education and human capital is unevenly distributed among males and females, although both total and per capita human …

One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …

available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to …

dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …

We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate … attained, and education debt using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the National Postsecondary Student Aid …