In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an … discriminating against female applicants. What we find is that girls are less likely to apply for a bachelor's degree in Economics to … Maths in high school and this may deter them from applying to study Economics at the university level. However, even among …

Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring …

Gender disparity is present in many aspects of life, especially in politics. This paper provides new evidence on the … impact of women's education on political representation focusing on several European countries. We combine multi-country data … from the Gender Statistics Database of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and from the European Social …

We examine the role of education in fostering the economic integration of immigrants. Although immigrants in Europe are …

policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

(i.e., caregiver education and experience), and convenience (i.e., caregiver car ownership and availability). We find …

African-Americans and low income students. -- single-sex education ; labor outcomes ; secondary schooling ; gender …A change to Title IX has spurred new single-sex public schooling in the US. Until recently, nearly all gender …-sex schooling is not universally superior in supporting gender equity, as coeducational public schools yield the least segregated …