: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an … approach that additionally engages with the enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. We find that both arms of the …

Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure … causal impact of elite peers on the probability of enrolling in elite education for students from different socioeconomic … intergenerational persistence at the top of the education and income distribution. …

persistence in elite education. We identify a positive elite peer effect on enrolment in elite programmes and disentangle …

country for men, and more than 45% of the variation for women. This indicates that education policy has an important role to …

parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … than their partners. We go further to show that these gender differences cannot be explained by gender differences in the … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …