education. The findings suggest that due to these gender differences, economic booms misallocate young men away from school …Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in … the opportunity cost of schooling on men's and women's educational attainment. I exploit a reform in Iceland that lowered …

based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender … suggest that low-income men are vulnerable to dropping out of school in the country, which leads to overestimating the actual … performance levels of Colombian men. …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women … overtook men in college-going. Using instrumental variation from routinization, we show that the decline of routine … their college premium. In contrast, men's non-college occupations were less susceptible to routinization. Our model …

Women used to lag behind but now exceed men in college enrollment. This paper shows that examining occupations which …, why do women attend college at greater rates than men today, when men work more and earn more than women? I document that … non-college occupations for men are both more plentiful and higher paying than those for women. Next, I link the …

Women used to lag behind but now exceed men in college enrollment. We show that changes in non-college job prospects … occupations for women, leading them to shift to cognitive work and increasing their college premiums. In contrast, non-college men …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their … college (through transfers and attrition) so that men from classes with at least 80% of male peers in high school did not have …

size responds to class gender composition more for men than for women. …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …

Using Greek administrative data, we examine the impact of being randomly assigned to a classroom with a same-gender top … records, which positions them as role models. Both male and female students are influenced by the performance of a same-gender … positive effects from the presence of a same-gender role model. Specifically, female students improved their science test …

Using Greek administrative data, we examine the impact of being randomly assigned to a classroom with a same-gender top … records, which positions them as role models. Both male and female students are influenced by the performance of a same-gender … positive effects from the presence of a same-gender role model. Specifically, female students improved their science test …