, we document substantial gender differences in response to this type of RPF: improvements in motivation and learning are …

, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from …

, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …

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. …

evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap. …

India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …

, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and …This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …