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 …

approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education … educational spending; (ii) this bargaining power is associated positively (negatively) with education spending in urban (rural …

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 …

This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …

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 …

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for …