This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that …

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of … overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have … mechanism behind this education gradient in BMI. A more recent and alternative explanation is that the BMI-education gradient …