This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of … of the gender wage gap.An updated longitudinal analysis using the CPS data is also provided. This examination of two … advantage of offering a longer panel. Analysis of the former suggests the reduction in gender composition effects observed for …

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … for rural and urban areas, and are based on a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are …

provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a … and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …

problems. A decomposition of the estimates indicates that most of the gender differences in Reading and Math cannot be related … to gender differences in behavioral problems. The large overall gender gap in Reading seems mainly to be the result of … gender differences between children without behavioral problems living in 'normal families', i.e. families which are not …

parental education and school characteristics, including teacher gender. At the cross-country level, differences in fertility …This paper uses microdata for 19 African countries to examine the gender difference in maths test scores amongst … observed in developed countries. This difference cannot be explained by gender differences in school quality, home environment …

We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between … fathers' labor supply is unchanged. Consequently, the reform decreased the monthly gender pay gap by 6 percent, generating …

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects …

find that access to public schools offset the research time loss to a greater extent among mothers of young children … relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to …

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 …