in explaining first-born boys' education levels. In contrast, both effects for first-born girls are evident but go in … opposite directions, resulting in a near-zero total effect which has previously been a measure of gender bias. These results … offer new evidence of sibling rivalry and gender bias in family settings that has not been detected in the literature. …

each GPA level, we find that gender differences in post-secondary expectations, controlling for school ability, and as …

Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … education and labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitiveness with an important career choice of … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be …

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

This paper discusses recent advances in our understanding of differences in human abilities and skills, their sources …

shows that standard human capital accounting methods can severely underestimate the role of education in development. It …

analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique … differences in the level and equity of student achievement. Variations in skills measured by the international achievement tests …

. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …

In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … and 2001, we use control function (Heckit) methods to correct married women's conditional mean wages for selectivity and …

Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become … more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that people skills are … important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that technological and organizational …