The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …

/methodology/approach We conduct a social experiment at a University in Southeastern Brazil, applying the gender-STEM Implicit Association Test … (STEM). Given that observed gender differences in math-intensive fields have lasting effects on gender inequality in the … labor market, and that observed gender variations do not necessarily associate with differences in innate ability, in this …

This paper studies whether the gender composition of recruiting committees matters. We make use of the exceptional … 1987-2006 were affected by the gender of their evaluators. We find that a female (male) candidate is significantly less …