While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive … skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel findings on cognitive … skill distributions by gender across 34 countries. Despite increasing educational equality, inequalities in numeracy skills …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender …

. Interestingly, the negative effect is stronger for men than for women. Specifically, the gender difference is more salient among the …

assessments, and characteristics of their families and siblings, we examine potential channels of the gender gap. Our results … confirm that objective mathematics abilities only explain a small share of the gender gap in self-assessed mathematics …. Gender-biased parental assessments explain a large part of the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment, highlighting the …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …

We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional … votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for apprenticeships …. Results show that adolescent males in regions with stronger traditional social gender norms are more likely to apply for …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …