A large number of empirical studies have investigated the role of education in the changes in union dissolution in …

pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion reflecting a large education premium for those with higher education …

This paper examines whether education empowers women. We exploit an exogenous variation in education induced by a … longer school year in Indonesia in 1978, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find education reduces the … outcome measures, we do not find evidence that education improves women's decision making authority within households, asset …

of pregnancy, including human rights abuses, gender inequality, child marriage, and socioeconomic marginalization …

Education is a main determinant of employment, but not in isolation. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT … use is closing the gender divide and favouring female employment. We present evidence on this for the Spanish labour …

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … during high school. Based on double-differences, the identification of the gender bias in grades suggests that girls benefit …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

birth cohorts, regardless of gender and sibling order. …