longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the postsecondary level of … percentage points less likely than boys to study in technical streams, namely science (STEM) and commerce, vis-à-vis arts or …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … percentage points less likely than boys to study in technical streams, namely science (STEM) and commerce, vis-à-vis arts or …

advances in gender equality. Several studies have examined how competitive FDI pressures might lower gender inequality by … transfer reduces gender employment and gender wage gaps in developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first … with foreign investment to reduce gender inequality in occupations that suffer most from discrimination, while technology …

India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries …. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude …

. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which … explains such interaction through role model effect or Pygmalion effect, we explain such interaction in terms of gender based … positive gender matching effect only for urban, private schools. We find support for our theoretical predictions when we test …

students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …

and male workers. The wage analysis reveals that, on average, the gender wage gap has been lowest in routine cognitive …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …