a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis epidemic in Niger on the gender gap in education. We document a …Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct … significant reduction in years of education for school-aged girls relative to boys following the epidemic. We explore several …

on mortality, fertility, health or education. …

relevant economic outcomes, focusing on gender differences. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German … in SED impact behavior, however, we find stark differences by gender, observing important changes in externalizing …. Ultimately, the effects on longer-run outcomes (subjective health, wellbeing, education) are grave and similar for both genders. …

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 …

), teacher characteristics (Chapter 4), and education system (Chapter 5). …