We investigate the impact of a change in the gender composition of the pool of candidates on the academic performance … of women in an entrance exam. We use data from a natural experiment that altered the gender composition of the candidates …, highlighting the nuanced impact of gender composition on women's performance in high-stakes exams. …

We examine gender gaps in early childhood cognitive and social-behavioral skills across several Latin American and … developmental measures and are less likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors. Furthermore, these gender gaps generally remain …

We evaluate the impact of deliberative dialogues about girls' education with groups of parents, teachers, and girls on … the education outcomes of girls in rural Zimbabwe. Dialog-based engagement campaigns increased mathematics performance and …

document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to …

Cross-country differences in the gender gap of higher education attainment are large. In this paper, we study the role … of gender norms for this particular gender gap. To isolate the effect of gender norms from institutional and economic …'s degree. We measure gender norms using economic outcomes as well as beliefs prevailing in the migrants' parents' country of …

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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 …