returns decline with more schooling, the marginal returns for women will tend to exceed those for men, especially in countries …'s education than father's. More educated women work more hours in the market labor force, broadening the tax base and thereby … expenditures toward women's education …

of resources, with due regard for value received. Education is no exception. This study focus on the presentation and … evaluation of public organizations (public grammar schools in our case) in education on the basis of their economy, efficiency … study can provide useful information about the situation of education for public forces and for public grammar schools …

positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This … positive externalities is quite limited. What is more, evidence on negative externalities of higher education has been mainly …Higher education is subsidized worldwide, although with pronounced differences in levels of subsidization. While public …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of gender composition of teams on performance, self … school students into two groups: we assign students in one group to teams of varying gender composition using random …-formed gender-biased teams prefer even more gender-biased teams ex-post. Our results also show that female-predominant teams under …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …

examines whether there is evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to education as well as the impact of education on gender …The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been … for most qualifications. The results from the paper suggest that conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education …

social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

Previous studies explain the gender earnings gap by gender differences in choosing competitive and higher-paying jobs … study, we use a novel identification strategy to investigate: 1) how the gender earnings gap arises from individuals' self … rewarding tasks reduces the gender earnings gap without hurting the benefits of men …