We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …

education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large …

A review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender …. These features help women overcome gender-related constraints. However, when social norms are too restrictive, and women are … de-biasing service provision, which can be gender biased; lastly, whenever possible, results should be sex …

centuries, we conduct the first quantitative exploration of the gender gap among classical composers. We use the length of a … gender gap with a focus on the development of composers' human capital through families, teachers, and institutionalized … music education. The evidence suggests that parental musical background matters for composers' prominence, that the effects …

parts of the world. This is most visible in labor markets, but also visible across a range of dimensions of gender …This survey argues that after decades of continuous progress in reducing gender inequality in developing and developed … countries, since about 2000, there has been an unexpected stagnation and regress in many dimensions of gender inequality in many …

We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with the mathematical content of high school curricula as the key … the math background in driving the Economics gender gap relative to other fields. Fourth, a triple difference analysis of …