This study uses data collected from school students in Mumbai to investigate how they perceive subjective expected … keen to observe subjective returns to education for different social identity groups, such as gender, religion, and caste …. Despite lower actual returns to education in the labour market, students from Other Backward Castes and Scheduled Castes and …

This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … leads to more progressive gender norms. Furthermore, these effects in gender perceptions are driven mostly by male students … school contexts may have substantial effects on reducing gender stereotypes and change gendered behaviours among students. …

and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student … analyses separately for affirmative action students and regular students. The main results suggest that affirmative action …

We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …') do not explain gender differences. Our findings suggest early interventions may reduce gender differences in labour …

channels explaining the gender differences in returns to better college and peer environment. To the best of our knowledge …

a high-stakes national exam for middle-high school students in Rwanda. To do this, we leverage plausibly exogenous … variations in programme exposure induced by the staggered implementation of the programme across schools and students. Overall … magnitude. The study, however, did not reveal any effects on mathematics and chemistry. We find larger effects in government …

Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this … question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian … the best students in the university entrance exam to the group that starts in the first semester, and the other 50 per …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …