Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There … social environment affects women's STEM choices as early as high school. Using administrative data from China, we find that … exposure to high-performing female peers in mathematics increases the likelihood that women choose a science track during high …

, teachers, and peers. We find no evidence of differential responses by gender. …We study the determinants of math achievement among children in early elementary school using data from a unique … experiment in which children were randomly assigned to classrooms within schools for four consecutive grades. As a result, each …

the effects of language of instruction on reading skills and early labour market outcomes. The results indicate that the … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

the effects of language of instruction on reading skills and early labour market outcomes. The results indicate that the … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

systems. In this study, we ask if high-stakes testing affects school-related stress among students and if there are gender … that high-stakes testing increases the gender gap in school-related stress. The results are robust to a range of …

It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those … teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which … there were few professional female exemplars other than teachers--and find that female students were more successful when …

This study examined the teaching aptitude of future teachers of Haryana. The study samples consisted of teacher …