Gender disparity is present in many aspects of life, especially in politics. This paper provides new evidence on the … impact of women's education on political representation focusing on several European countries. We combine multi-country data … from the Gender Statistics Database of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and from the European Social …

policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …

-by university opening, closing the local gender gap in university education by about 72%. Third, I provide evidence that local … education that has been documented for developed countries in the latter half of the 20th century. It uses the foundation of new … how women's mobility and education decisions interact. I first document women's low regional mobility in post-war West …

discrimination against female students in the Chinese college education system …Motivated by a widely observed phenomenon in China that female college students outperform male students in economics … and most of social science subjects, this paper examines gender differences in student performance in the intermediate …

Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM … to recruit almost all French secondary and postsecondary teachers and professors. Comparisons of oral non gender …-blind tests with written gender-blind tests for about 100,000 individuals observed in 11 different fields over the period 2006 …

The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school …, human capital accumulation and social mobility. In the vocational education and training system, resources continue to be … market needs requires active participation of social partners, students and education institutions. The rapid expansion of …

Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals … Economics degree than non-enrollees (a plausible lower bound given negative selection into enrollment on math skills and major … participation in Economics …