effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … homelands in the aftermath of World War II. The econometric analyses are based on different micro data sets and employ micro …

This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … school at age four and had better teacher-assessed literacy skills in kindergarten. Boys' advantage in numeracy occurs …

persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational …

This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … component of the gender gap not explained by different characteristics. Our main findings are two-fold. First, in contrast with … sample is split by education. On the one hand, for the group with college/tertiary education, we find a higher unexplained …

persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational …

This paper investigates the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on learning outcomes of secondary school … students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …

gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school. …I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade … national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading …

This paper explores the contribution of biological factors in explaining gender differences in educational performance … traditional gender norms can explain this finding, implying that our results are not just driven by biology but materialize …

This paper explores the contribution of biological factors in explaining gender differences in educational performance … traditional gender norms can explain this finding, implying that our results are not just driven by biology but materialize …

economic affluence and gender equality in education. For the urban population, the analysis shows that economic prosperity can … significant positive relationship with gender gap in education. The study concludes that prosperity alone can not ensure gender … technique to depict the state level pattern of gender inequality in literacy rate based on Census data. Section III deals with …