We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century …

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are … richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women's disenfranchisement carries a societal cost …. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male median voter when women are disenfranchised. Next we show that, as …

underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County … driven by Black women. Rather than comorbidity or aging, the Black female bias is associated with poverty and channeled by …

underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County … driven by Black women. Rather than comorbidity or aging, the Black female bias is associated with poverty and channeled by …

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender differentials in the historical period that … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …