socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …

unobserved family influences. We also explore gender differences in the context-dependence of genetic influences and find the …

younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 … capital on the gender earnings gap, both within cohorts and across cohorts using regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, and Juhn …-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and …

United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on …

within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases … effect of "high-achievers" on male outcomes is markedly different: boys are unaffected by "high-achievers" of either gender. …

computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational …

impact of a one-to-one technology program implemented on a large scale over a multiyear period. With administrative school …