We evaluate the impact of a role model intervention on the gender attitudes, college aspirations and education outcomes … models on boys' and girls' attitudes toward gender equality but no impact on college aspirations. Data collected two and four …

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. …

gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …

increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …

We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature … increases the academic achievement of all students. Nevertheless, the identification of pure gender effects remains a challenge … paper disentangles pure "academic" peer effects and "gender" peer effects. Our estimations reveal that the higher the share …

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects. …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …