This paper measures the evolution of the gender differences in numeracy among school age children using a longitudinal … that any changes in the gender gap are caused by actual changes in numeracy. To my knowledge, this is the first study that … marriage market returns to numeracy for either gender. The second explanation is that the Indonesian education system appears …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century …

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 …

endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development …This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives … income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with …

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those … century. Human development improvement is positively associated to being coastal and resource-rich and negatively to political …