The article argues that in the Philippines there is a need for a more nuanced view of gender equality. Historically …, Filipino males were somewhat more educated than females. Now the males are lagging behind the females and the education gender … paper argues that today gender equality advocacy should go beyond the stereo-typical focus on girls' education and pay more …

view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … education continues. …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …