This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in a historical perspective with a focus on the … cultural factors, we find that over the 1861–1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a …

collected at the provincial level for 1871, the year of Italy's political unification. The analysis of the data allows us to …