The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls …

United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on …

This paper documents the patterns and examines the factors contributing to a gender gap in educational achievements in … all grades, whether at the mean or along the distribution of the test score. Our results also reveal a widening gender … importance of controlling for pre-school cognitive skills in examining the gender test score gap. …

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 …

framing; whether a specific victim was identified; and the gender of a victim. We found that a reminder of the need for blood …