This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics …

-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find … education and beginning tertiary education when schooling delay is taken into account, though the female gap is larger. The same …

persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational …

national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading … gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …

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 …

Using data from the 2012 PISA across 56 countries, this study examines the link between societal gender inequalities … and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage empirical strategy in which the first stage … involves decomposing the gender mathematics gap into a part that is explained by gender differences in observable …

India. We measure teacher s bias through an index capturing teacher s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls attitude …

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …