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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … level in India. We focus on the time period 1987 to 1999 and three services sectors - banking, insurance and … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …

India. The gender gap closes in urban India when the father is college educated, but not in rural areas. The college …We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of intergenerational … estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. Evidence rejects the linear model in favor of a concave relation …

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family …, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China …We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

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 …

ultrasound technology. In this paper, we analyze the differential spread of ultrasound in India at the state level over a ten …