Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and … based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender … suggest that low-income men are vulnerable to dropping out of school in the country, which leads to overestimating the actual …

: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

This paper analyzes gender bias in teaching in low-performing schools in Chile. To carry out the analyses, the authors … teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to female students. Gender bias had an even greater effect in classrooms … Classroom Assessment Scoring System, or CLASS) show a larger gender bias. Greater gender bias is also correlated with lower …

We study the determinants of math achievement among children in early elementary school using data from a unique … mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys, which suggests that … maternal education specifically, and home environments generally, are important. There is no evidence that teacher quality …

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours … gender gaps in lawyers' earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 …

addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …