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 …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

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 …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting … coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a … difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous years. We …

This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure … gender culture based on firms’ attitudes is significant in explaining gender gap in employment in Italian provinces. We show …

boys, the negative effect is largely driven by exposure to mixed-gender peers at school-level, it is class-level exposure …—to identify three distinct causal parameters: the between-school effect of attending a coed (versus a single-sex) school; the … within-school effect of school-type conversion, conditional on (unobserved) school characteristics; and the effect of class …

disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high-school completions …. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is …