factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and … gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor …In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites …

in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education …, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …

Cross-country differences in the gender gap of higher education attainment are large. In this paper, we study the role … of gender norms for this particular gender gap. To isolate the effect of gender norms from institutional and economic …'s degree. We measure gender norms using economic outcomes as well as beliefs prevailing in the migrants' parents' country of …

, and whether these effects differ by gender. Using detailed students' data from an Italian university, combined with … students who acquire citizenship, particularly among males, leading to a reduction in gender gaps. Moreover, gender gaps are … smaller and show a more pronounced decrease with citizenship as gender inequality in countries increases. Results are …

Gender pay gaps are commonly studied in populations with already completed educational careers. We focus on an earlier … stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … cohorts of a large-scale student survey from Germany, we use regression and wage decomposition techniques to describe gender …

Given the ongoing efforts to close the gender pay gap across different sectors in the UK, this paper investigates the … impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university sector, focusing on the Russell Group of top … increased by around 0.62 percentage points compared to male counterparts, reducing the gender pay gap by 4.37%. The effect is …