opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …

categorized as low-resource families. -- gender differences ; education ; behavior … problems. A decomposition of the estimates indicates that most of the gender differences in Reading and Math cannot be related … to gender differences in behavioral problems. The large overall gender gap in Reading seems mainly to be the result of …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … participation. The probability to participate in the paid labour market shows an increasing trend with education levels higher than …

gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … attributed to changes in (selection corrected) skill prices. The impact of movements in skill prices on the reduction in gender …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … based on the gender of the other twin. We find that the gender of the sibling influences both men and women, but in a …

attainment, whereas the presence of sex-based grammatical gender, and its association with gender bias, has a significant adverse …

technologies (ICT) skills and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills yield significant positive returns … labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a …

Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than … 70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected … assigned female math and science professors on occupation and postgraduate education. We find that, among high-ability female …