and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically … provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …

so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth … twentieth century, the introduction of mass secondary school education and the expansion of the number of universities widened … access. At the same time, subjects offered in higher education increased in scope, and explicit and implicit labour market …

have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …

This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …

Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries …. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender … on gender equality in achievement across different sources: the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS …

hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …

This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … component of the gender gap not explained by different characteristics. Our main findings are two-fold. First, in contrast with … sample is split by education. On the one hand, for the group with college/tertiary education, we find a higher unexplained …