individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …

This paper applies recent spatial regression techniques in peer effects estimation to a sample of 33 countries in the … IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …, a significant, but small gender achievement gap amounting to 10% of a country-level standard deviation is confirmed in …

covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the …

range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally … with brothers. Gender-biased human capital investment by families tends to amplify the harmful effects for girls, while …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects. …

mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …