and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …

significantly reduce the gender test score gap. A remaining gap of 14% of a standard deviation in test scores is unexplained. …

This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases … teachers increases. The positive same-gender effect on test scores is counteracted by a negative assessment effect. That is …

Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of … teenagers (15-19), the conditional gender gap becomes significant and sizeable for the over-20. The Juhn, Murphy and Pierce …

than serving a particular socio-economic group. We exploit this fact to test whether the gender composition of schools … single-sex schooling reduces the gap. If anything, the gender differential is larger for children educated in single …

Technologies (ICT) in the Pakistani firms using the World Bank Enterprise Survey 2002-07. The paper considers various indicators of … human capital and measures of ICT adoption and diffusion. On-the-job training, manager's level of qualification and … size, sales and workers' compensation are also positively associated with the use of ICT. The findings show the importance …

schools, placing them in the context of national patterns of subject take-up. Strong gender differentiation persists in the …

reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey …