We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …

education and gender differences in educational attainment and income. We argue that in a system that streams students into … the tracking age increased gender differences in the probability of choosing the academic secondary education and in the … probability of continuing into academic tertiary education. The reform had particularily negative effects on boys from non …

Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking … age in secondary education from age 10 to 16 and imposed a uniform academic curriculum on entire cohorts until the end of …

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …