One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely considered to … ineffective in narrowing the gender gaps in academic performance and intrahousehold allocation of education resources. Gender … have been attained. However, measuring gender parity only through school enrollment is misleading, as girls may lag behind …

We examine the impact of a large, randomized Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) project in rural Zimbabwe. The … multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, parents, teachers, and …

This paper estimates and interprets returns to education for three sub-sectors of labour market by gender in Pakistan … two distinctive features of Pakistani education, the high apparent returns to female education outside agriculture, and … the remarkable increase of returns with successive levels of education, are to be explained primarily by two departures …

period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …

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 …