developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in …-grade and student gender by grade fixed effects, we find that both male and female teachers are more effective at teaching … students of their own gender; (3) However, female teachers are more effective overall, resulting in girls' test scores …

. Betty Friedan (1963) postulated that beliefs about gender were formed by consumer good producers, but a simple model … unlikely to be universal, or even common, but gender stereotypes have a long history. To explain that history, we turn to a … childbearing, which may explain why gender-related beliefs changed radically among generations born in the 1940s. …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial …

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. …

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries--in education, personal autonomy, and more …--explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender … inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. I argue that while …

each GPA level, we find that gender differences in post-secondary expectations, controlling for school ability, and as … early as 8th grade are the most important factor accounting for this trend. Increases in the growing proportion of girls who …