We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …

manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains …