This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …

Reducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and … Vietnamese men to reflect about gender equality can reduce their gender bias. We randomly selected two groups of husbands and … requested one group to make comments on gender-related laws and another group to write stories about gender equality. We find …

Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … previously been studied. We find that, unlike in the patriarchic society, there is no significant gender difference in the … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …

elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls' interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …

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 …

of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …