Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls … countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper …

In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the … endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries' general level of gender (in …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls’ disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the … endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries’ general level of gender (in …

Colombia and the country's excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and … based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender … suggest that low-income men are vulnerable to dropping out of school in the country, which leads to overestimating the actual …

, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and …This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … problems in school relative to girls, including suspensions and reduced educational aspirations, when they are in poor quality …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and …