Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but …-five children in Turkey. I find gains in health and human capital among age-eligible children of both sexes. However, educational …

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … evidence that schooling changed women's attitudes towards gender equality …

admissions in Turkey. We find that a policy that pools a large fraction of the lowest performing students leads to a Pareto …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …

science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between … matter is limited and contradictory. In this study, I present new empirical evidence on whether assignment to a same-gender … these data indicate that assignment to a same-gender teacher significantly improves the achievement of both girls and boys …

We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer behavior, (iii) time use, or (iv) social attitudes. Gender …