India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …

students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …

India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls' attitude …

national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading … gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school. …

This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical … and reading gender gaps. We use rich administrative data from Chile, that allows us to follow teachers through different … reduce the gender gap in math by 16.9%. The reduction in the math gender gap is greater in voucher schools (16.1%), among …

differences in TVA explain an important part of the gender gaps we observe on test scores and on postsecondary education … practices benefit students independently of their gender.Finally, we also find that female teachers are on average more …

This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … level in India. We focus on the time period 1987 to 1999 and three services sectors - banking, insurance and … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …

We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …

India. The gender gap closes in urban India when the father is college educated, but not in rural areas. The college …We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of intergenerational … estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. Evidence rejects the linear model in favor of a concave relation …