The article argues that in the Philippines there is a need for a more nuanced view of gender equality. Historically …, Filipino males were somewhat more educated than females. Now the males are lagging behind the females and the education gender … paper argues that today gender equality advocacy should go beyond the stereo-typical focus on girls' education and pay more …

view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … education continues. …

of the progress of the Philippines in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) on quality education and lifelong … secondary education participation. However, issues like high dropout rates and subpar learning outcomes remain. The Philippines …The Global Goal on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for …

/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …

the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows … and wage differentials, our results emphasize the roles of education as well as transport infrastructure in facilitating …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …