especially those with limited English language skills and recent data suggest that North Carolina has the 8th largest ELL student …. Rather, it is the limited English language skills of some of these students that leads to small, negative peer effects on …

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories …, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4 …-country relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women's labor force participation and educational attainment. We replicate …

This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their … indigenous groups, retaining the minority language along with Spanish increases employment opportunities. Furthermore, we show …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

force participation of the wife of her son. These results indicate that the transmission of gender role attitudes …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs ….This article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly … wide range of societal inequalities that are not directly related to gender. It is also observed in other parts of the … science and reading. Such findings highlight how differences in socio-economic and cultural factors can affect gender gaps in …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of … parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male breadwinner model: whether the husband should … earn and the wife stay at home. We control for other covariates that capture alternative explanations for gender role …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …