This paper investigates gender inequality of academic achievement using mean and quantile decomposition analysis in … eighth grade. There is a mixed picture of gender inequality across the eight countries; the gap favours boys in three …, favours girls in three and there is no average difference in two countries. No particular factors consistently explain gender …

Using data from 27 sub-Saharan African countries, I identify the causal effect of sibling gender on education and how … gender, while boys who do not inherit experience a significant negative effect of having a brother. Having a brother has a … small negative effect on the education of girls, regardless of inheritance customs. The effect of sibling gender converges …

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap. …