secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the …

that the underperformance of girls in math is sharply reduced in the regions of the former GDR, in contrast with those of … the former FRG.We show that this East-West difference is due to girls' attitudes, confidence and competitiveness in math …

The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling …. The model incorporates home production, which is critical for understanding the behavior of mothers when deciding girls …' schooling. Results suggest that monetary incentives are a good mechanism to increase girls' school enrollment, but not the most …

trafficking of girls. We find the association to be heterogeneous by female empowerment, crime against women and party rule in the …Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in … levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed …

secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to … increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age … increasing girls' enrolment than comparable conditional cash transfer programs in South Asia, suggesting that the coordinated …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …

promoting women in research activities. Exploiting a newly collected data set on recruitment processes to entry-level research … positions in a leading Italian research centre operating mainly in the hard sciences, the study finds that bias against women … discriminating against women. The results suggest that gender of the committee members, network structure and type of recruitment …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

the implications of these investigations on college enrollment, particularly for women. We combine institution-level panel … data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college … enrollment. We estimate that enrollment of women at colleges under Title IX investigation declined by 16 to 22 percent. The …