students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …

This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the … higher secondary level of schooling in India. We analyze the choice of science stream that is a crucial determinant of …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in a model of intergenerational … India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence rejects the linear CEF, both in rural and urban … India, in favor of a concave relation. The girls face lower mobility irrespective of location in India when born to fathers …

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family …, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …

Using a national level sample survey on labour market in India, we analyze the role of education-occupation (mis …

on a region from India where social identities are defined along the lines of castes and religious groups. It …

We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters … perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these … gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender …

are still underrepresented in several occupations. In this article, the effect of gender norms on whether women enter male …-dominated occupations is analysed using differences in gender equality among early-arrival migrants. The variations in gender norms … occupational choices. Using data from the American Community Survey, it is found that greater gender equality in the country of …