Using data from the 2012 PISA across 56 countries, this study examines the link between societal gender inequalities … and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage empirical strategy in which the first stage … involves decomposing the gender mathematics gap into a part that is explained by gender differences in observable …

endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries' general level of gender (in …

when we analyse gender gaps, because attitudes towards mathematics differ by gender. We first describe the differences by … gender both in test scores and attitudes utilising a model including school fixed effects. Next, we estimate a quantile … regression in order to analyse how the gender gap varies across the distribution of the attitudes. Lastly, in addition to the …

Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …

The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …: girls perform relatively better in both maths and reading in societies where gender equality is enhanced, and the effect …

. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …

that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …

of a standard deviation in the gender gap in maths from primary to secondary school in the UK, and show that adolescent … development contributes to explain almost two thirds of the widening of the math gender gap during the adolescence years. We also … relationships between adolescent development and the increase in the gender gap in math in secondary school. …

In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …-sex schooling, this paper addresses the dearth of the research in the context of higher education as well as the context of Muslim …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …