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 experimentally investigates the effect of gender-based affirmative action (AA) on performance in the lab …, focusing on a tournament environment. The tournament is based on GRE math questions commonly used in graduate school admission …

Employment opportunities in occupations related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, the so … Income Dynamics to study gender differences in math achievement and self-perceived math ability and how they may differ by … role on subsequent decision of majoring in a science field in college. Our results corroborate significant gender …

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education …-India level are robust to the statistical method and the education expenditure measure, while they are more sensitive to changes …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We find robust evidence that female primary school attainment … Italian cities among themselves and with the rest of the world. The effect of medieval commerce is particularly strong at the …