being parental education and socioeconomic status. …

where children - despite low levels of parents' education and comparatively few socioeconomic resources - have greater …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …

Germany with educational information on the entire population. The education module of the register census is intended to … provides an insight into the initial conceptual considerations regarding the education module of the register census and the …

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an … approach that additionally engages with the enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. We find that both arms of the …

increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …