a difference-in-differences estimation method, it was found that early tracking has a direct effect on the gender gap in … gender gap varies to a great extent between countries. While the existing literature explains these differences as being … like tracking, grade retention, and individualised teaching practices. The gender test score gap is analysed in math …

the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … predominantly to sex-based grammatical gender. …

of teachers vary by the gender of the composer but the effects of parents do not, and while musician mothers and female … centuries, we conduct the first quantitative exploration of the gender gap among classical composers. We use the length of a … gender gap with a focus on the development of composers' human capital through families, teachers, and institutionalized …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …

. Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund sind in Klassen mit einer hohen Diversität jedoch schlechter sozial integriert. Wir zeigen …

potential ageing processes specific to gender and physique. Fourth, fractional polynomials have been added to the testing …. -- Labor productivity ; ageing economics ; economics of gender …

potential ageing processes specific to gender and physique. Fourth, fractional polynomials have been added to the testing …

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

endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries’ general level of gender (in …