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 …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

centralized admissions processes to both secondary and tertiary education in Finland. Admission to further education at either … margin does not increase the likelihood that men form families. In contrast, women admitted to further education are more … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …

elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls' interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on student performance are sizable in smaller classes, but do not exist in … for the emergence of gender match effects. Instead, the mere fact that one's professor is female is not sufficient to …

We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey …, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour … against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …

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

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

, which combines a randomized experimental framework eliciting counterfactual choices with gender norms differences across … ethnicities and cohorts to identify the impacts of individual preferences and gender identity norms. Equal sharing of tasks yields … egalitarian gender attitudes significantly increases the probability of choosing an equal share of housework. Were attitudes …

class-level exposure to mixed-gender (versus same-sex) peers. We find robust evidence that pupils in single-sex schools … school-level covariates. Focusing on switching schools, we find that the conversion of the pupil gender type from single …-varying observables. While for boys, the negative effect is largely driven by exposure to mixed-gender peers at school-level, it is class …