The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

Wage transparency regulation is widely considered and adopted as a tool to reduce the gender wage gap. We combine field … that this regulation does not affect the gender wage gap. In an online laboratory experiment, we study whether the failure … of these types of information reduce the gender wage gap. Wage information even deters women from entering negotiations. …

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for … a triple difference strategy across gender, cohorts and regions. We find that the admission cap was binding, as it …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … COPD, education still plays a role. …

the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health …" rising with education. …

for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within the province, village-level variation in gender attitudes confirm … the importance of parental gender preferences. Consequently, large scale programs can have positive (and possibly …