Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue … tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. …

How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap …

2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have …Using data from the urban household surveys of the China Household Income Project for the years 1995, 2002, 2007 and …. Based on new data for 2013, however, we find that from 2007 to 2013 the gender wage gap narrowed. For 2013 we estimate the …

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we … characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got …

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 …

are still gender differences in investment behaviour. We conduct a thorough literature review and empirical analysis based …. Controlling for selected socio-economic variables, we find that women have significantly less holdings in risky assets. This …

Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two … characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps … due to both characteristics in Ecuador for the period 2003-2007, applying a matching comparisons technique developed in …

Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain … the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against … correctly, and (iii) respond correctly in high-stakes situations. Even risk preferences in wagering decisions, where gender …

various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these … violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the research illustrates that differences in cultural norms … regarding gender roles emerge in response to specific historical situations, but tend to persist even after the historical …

, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than …