for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda .-- II. Understanding gender disparity in education and employment … performance to discern any gender disparity in access to education and academic performance of students. …Considering the vital importance of gender equality to development and the specific promise of the 2030 Agenda for …

better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the …-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …