There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …

happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …

While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively … Ireland to study these choices. We find systematic and substantial differences by gender in choice of graduate field, even … health programmes. When we explore the effect of these choices on early career gender gaps in earnings, we find that they …

By using unique web-survey data, this paper assesses the gender wage gap in Polish academia. We conduct a detailed … study of the gender gap considering monthly salaries and reservation wages. The study involves regression analysis, Oaxaca …

, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …

We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across … birth cohorts. Our approach differs from the existing literature, which exploits variation in gender composition at a given … generally yields spurious gender peer effects when there is grade retention. The birth cohort approach applied to primary …