We establish the presence of a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries using detailed …, comparable test score data. Examining micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics we note that first …, the gender gap appears to increase with age. Indeed, the gap nearly doubles when comparing 4th grade and 8th grade test …

We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … between boys and girls upon entry to school, but girls lose more than two-tenths of a standard deviation relative to boys over … the first six years of school. The ground lost by girls relative to boys is roughly half as large as the black-white test …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of gender-based affirmative action (AA) on performance in the lab …, focusing on a tournament environment. The tournament is based on GRE math questions commonly used in graduate school admission …

the gender gap in education and in labor markets …'s most distinctive trait. Applied to gender stereotypes, the model provides a unified account of disparate evidence regarding …

science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between …. However, because the middle-school teachers in most academic subjects are female, these results also suggest that the gender … matter is limited and contradictory. In this study, I present new empirical evidence on whether assignment to a same-gender …

administrative records, we estimate the causal effect of school quality on the gender gap in educational outcomes by contrasting … received in childhood. We assess whether this is also true for schooling inputs. Using matched Florida birth and school …-family variation in school quality arising from family moves. Investigating middle school test scores, absences and suspensions, we …

and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically … reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher … schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 … characteristics, if any, appear to have strong positive impacts on learning and time in school. Starting with over 9,000 studies, 79 …