We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family …, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …

education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large …

This study employs the pseudo-panel approach to estimate returns to education among income earners in Sri Lanka …-2008 for workers born during 1953-1974.  The results show that for males, one extra year of education increases monthly … per cent on average.  It also suggests that males with higher ability seem to be acquiring more years of education …

education explanatory variable based on the 1977 educational reform in Ecuador. Our results provide evidence of positive self …-selection among migrants. Taking into account the 27{57 age sample, an individual with a lower secondary level of education increases … the urban areas. Considering both country-specific characteristics and gender differentials, our results do not indicate a …

demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our … view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women …