better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …

Using a twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly …

thatsingle-sex schooling also strengthens female students’ selfconfidenceand renders the self-assessment of their …

, daughters' educational attainment still depends, albeit to a lesser extent, on parental education background and especially on …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

Understanding the role of the family in the production of human capital is a salient question in economics. Using a … twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly identifies the effect …

children’s education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households …” by the migrants. Left-behind households’ expenditure on children’s education and the gendered distribution of these …’ expenditures on children’s education. This gendered distribution is analyzed by estimating the effect of migration on the share of …

Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender …-based wage gap substantially, and results of research on the gender composition of jobs have been used in guiding pay equity … of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative …

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

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …