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Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …
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We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …
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Using a nationally representative data set of Indonesian households and villages, we study the determinants of enrolment in Islamic schools (i.e., madrasahs) and private non-religious vis-à-vis public non-religious schools. Multinomial logit estimates indicate that madrasahs systematically...
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reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey …
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Languages differ in the degree to which they employ gender distinctions for nouns and pronouns. Speaking a more … gendered language may highlight gender in the mind of the speaker, leading to more pronounced gender roles, and is associated … literature by showing that speaking a more highly gendered language is also associated with a greater gender gap in educational …
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