development contributes to explain almost two thirds of the widening of the math gender gap during the adolescence years. We also …Using different production function models, we study the causal association between adolescence development and the … puberty development and educational outcomes from childhood into adolescence. We first document a widening of about 10 percent …

gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that … with a slower rate of cognitive skill growth during adolescence. This disadvantage in cognitive development is also … boys is however too small to explain more than a fraction of the gender gap in educational outcomes. Furthermore, we find …

We evaluate the impact of a role model intervention on the gender attitudes, college aspirations and education outcomes … models on boys' and girls' attitudes toward gender equality but no impact on college aspirations. Data collected two and four …

often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence … document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to … abortion access, we find that impacts on births are large and robust for Black women. Black teen births in states that …

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 …

likely to attend tertiary education, less likely to attend vocational education, and more likely to end without qualified …' more academically oriented career aspirations and expectations before leaving school. On the one hand, these higher … ambitions allow higher skilled migrants to hieventertiary education despite their less favourable background characteristics. On …

The main goal of this paper is to show the importance of secondary education in the results of Argentine youth in the … secondary education promotes greater participation in the labor force and it does so in a higher degree among young women than … young men. Also, compared with primary education, secondary school increases the employment opportunity of youth and has a …

gender as well. Expertise in the form of increased mathematical abilities and economic education is suggested as a promising …This paper investigates the moderating effect of confidence on the gender gap in financial literacy based on a … abilities and several independent variables. This study shows that confidence is indeed a strong force in bridging the gender …