In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …

than serving a particular socio-economic group. We exploit this fact to test whether the gender composition of schools … single-sex schooling reduces the gap. If anything, the gender differential is larger for children educated in single …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century …

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

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits …

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills.I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …