indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index … insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender … capital and competitiveness, and focus on decreasing gender disparity and the associated loss of achievement due to gender …

(sorting students into different types of secondary schools at an early age) on gender gaps in test achievement in a cross …-country difference-in-differences framework. We find strong evidence that early tracking increases gender differences in reading. For … math test scores, we do not find consistent evidence that early tracking contributes to the gender gap. …

Gender gaps in educational performance tables show differences in achievement between girls and boys. Data cover …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender differentials in the historical period that … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …