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

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … schools, less-educated neighborhoods, and father-absent households. Following these cohorts into young adulthood, however, we … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls …

This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative …

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects. …

novel evidence of the pervasiveness of role-model effects in elite settings and of the graduate-school education production …

enrolment in Islamic schools (i.e., madrasahs) and private non-religious vis-à-vis public non-religious schools. Multinomial … in madrasahs, irrespective of their locations, while boys enjoy a higher probability of enrolment in non-madrasah schools …