canonical model of skill-biased technological change augmented with a gender dimension, an endogenous market/home labor choice … and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries …. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …

, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is … reveal that within-gender peer effects have approximately twice the influence of cross-gender peer effects on wages for both … characterized by greater gender equality. …