We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …

The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …

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 …

gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …-in-law's time allocation across different activities, where their education levels are used as indicators of bargaining power? The …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household …

juxtaposition of water infrastructure and gender differences at the household level. We use spatiotemporal data from the largest … gender disaggregated human development survey in India (2005-2012) and carry out econometric analyses using individual fixed … piped drinking water (IPDW) on employment and earnings by gender, the self-reported health of women, the prevalence of …

This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant … shares of female employment and require high education investments. Our hypothesis is that the national-level liberalization …

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 …