adolescent human capital production. Our focus is inspired by the contemporary psychology of education literature, which … of how to lessen racial and gender achievement gaps. One general insight is that students who are falling behind their … peers, whether correlated to race, gender, or school district, are doing so because of academic efficiency rather than time …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …

IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …, a significant, but small gender achievement gap amounting to 10% of a country-level standard deviation is confirmed in …

.6 and 2.1 percentage points in primary and lower secondary education respectively, with girls more severely affected than …

: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 … capital on the gender earnings gap, both within cohorts and across cohorts using regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, and Juhn …-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and …