the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …

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

While education levels of women have increased dramatically relative to men, women are still greatly underrepresented … to decompose the sources of the gender gap in STEM. We find that, of the 22 percentage points raw gap, about 13 … points of the gender gap. Additionally, differences in overall achievement between girls and boys have a negligible effect …

within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases … effect of "high-achievers" on male outcomes is markedly different: boys are unaffected by "high-achievers" of either gender. …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …