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 …

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 …

concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China …We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

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 …

, and whether these effects differ by gender. Using detailed students' data from an Italian university, combined with … students who acquire citizenship, particularly among males, leading to a reduction in gender gaps. Moreover, gender gaps are … smaller and show a more pronounced decrease with citizenship as gender inequality in countries increases. Results are …

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 …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …

The paper examines the short-term implications of urbanization on women empowerment in India. In theory, urbanization … urbanization that India is currently experiencing, the importance of these findings cannot be overemphasized. They suggest that … while urbanization could go a long way toward economically empowering women in India, the government also needs to devise …

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …