In this paper we analyze whether the gender composition of classmates in high school affects the choice of college …-major by shifting it towards those majors preferred by the prevalent gender in the class. We use a novel dataset of 30 … exploit the fact that the gender composition of the graduating high school class, from one year to the next, within School …

The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers …, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this … paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in Israeli …

. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but …

. Stock measures of education among the entire adult population show rising attainment levels for both men and women, with men … mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no …

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and … likely to hold the view. As a benchmark, classmates' average gender attitudes have a similar effect size. We find that …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …