This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … leads to more progressive gender norms. Furthermore, these effects in gender perceptions are driven mostly by male students … to female peers operates not only by reducing traditional gender perceptions but also by changing actual behaviour …

.6 and 2.1 percentage points in primary and lower secondary education respectively, with girls more severely affected than …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

The study of education in developing countries has been transformed by the rapid increase in the feasibility and … broad range of research questions regarding education in developing countries that have been addressed using field … education. The main goal for this chapter is to serve as a reference for students, researchers, and practitioners by summarizing …

The aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender … inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant … ministry. We find no evidence for a needs-based allocation of aid for education. Female as well as male leaders appear to have …

mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears … teacher gender) help explain a substantial portion of the gap. While none of these explanations help in explaining a large … portion of the gender gap, we show that boys and girls differ significantly in perceptions about their own ability in math …

This survey argues that after decades of continuous progress in reducing gender inequality in developing and developed … countries, since about 2000, there has been an unexpected stagnation and regress in many dimensions of gender inequality in many … parts of the world. This is most visible in labor markets, but also visible across a range of dimensions of gender …

We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low …-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity … of human capital available in an economy. Second, gender gaps in the labor market impede the development of new ideas by …

of pregnancy, including human rights abuses, gender inequality, child marriage, and socioeconomic marginalization …