increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … schools, less-educated neighborhoods, and father-absent households. Following these cohorts into young adulthood, however, we … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls …

mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears … teacher gender) help explain a substantial portion of the gap. While none of these explanations help in explaining a large … portion of the gender gap, we show that boys and girls differ significantly in perceptions about their own ability in math …

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three … objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on …