Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender … dropout rate overestimates male performance means, creating a selection bias in the regular OLS estimation. In order to …