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 …

Considering the vital importance of gender equality to development and the specific promise of the 2030 Agenda for … performance to discern any gender disparity in access to education and academic performance of students. … for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda .-- II. Understanding gender disparity in education and employment …

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 …