This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been …

STEM-ready students. We find that gender gaps are smaller among high-achieving students and for students who go to school … to decompose the sources of the gender gap in STEM. We find that, of the 22 percentage points raw gap, about 13 … find a smaller gender gap when we include nursing degrees in STEM, showing that the definition of STEM used is an important …

This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher … gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

decline of high school graduation rates by gender helps to explain the recent increase in male-female college attendance gaps. …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting …

growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student … than their non-science counterparts. Students with relatively weaker academic preparation are significantly more likely to … leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more …