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 …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …

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 …

we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural …

-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates … women's STEM avoidance, but male low achievement has been less-studied and tends to be attributed to behavior problems and …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in …Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic …

We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …