observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and … robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained by broader cohort effects or general anti-social behaviors in male peer …

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …

We examine the role of school closures in contributing to the negative labor market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic …. We collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which we merge to individual level … 2019 through May 2020. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, we gauge how the intensity of school closures …

physical disability and social support among older adults with cognitive impairment living alone, and their gender and racial …

program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non …-cognitive skills are sizable and significant for ethnic minority students, although there seems to be little gender difference. The … program on cognitive skills. There is little variation of long-term impacts by gender or geographical region, although the …