transform gender attitudes and promote educational equality in Afghanistan. …

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 …

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Some major challenges for many girls include … most of the schooling and empowerment results, suggesting greater impact for girls that live further away from school …

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

, 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 …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …