a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … commerce quickly dissipates after national compulsory primary schooling is imposed at Unification, suggesting that the channel …

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to …

environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop …

in China. Exploiting province and time variation we find strong positive effects on cognition for girls and no effects … for boys. For non-cognitive skills we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within province, village level variation in gender attitudes confirm the …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are … schooling, there is no strong evidence that skills measured in childhood predict wages in the early years of labor market …