This study investigates men's attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan, focusing on primary, secondary, and … toward women's education are predominantly negative, notably in rural areas. However, women's contributions to household … income significantly mitigate these negative attitudes, particularly toward secondary education, followed by tertiary …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … in STEM occupations, earn less, and have more children. Our findings show that the school peer environment has lasting …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in 23 countries. The … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how …

This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 …. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students’ preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for 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. …