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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246745
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Epidemics, Gender, and Human Capital in Developing Countries
Fabrizio, S.; Gomes, Diego; Meyimdjui, Carine; Mendes … - 2022
.6 and 2.1 percentage points in primary and lower secondary education respectively, with girls more severely affected than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306727
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Are Low-Skill Women Being Left Behind? Labor Market Evidence from the UK
Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2022
Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women, a trend that predates the pandemic. We examine the contribution of job polarization to this trend by estimating age, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295003
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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343191
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The evolution of the gender test score gap through seventh grade: New insights from Australia using unconditional quantile regression and decomposition
Le, Huong Thu; Nguyen, Ha Trong - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 2, pp. 1-42
This paper documents the patterns and examines the factors contributing to a gender gap in educational achievements in early seventh grade of schooling using a recent and nationally representative panel of Australian children. Regression results indicate that females excel at non-numeracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991979
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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266066
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Gender differences in educational attainment: evidence on the role of the tracking age from a Finnish quasi-experiment
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2005
education and gender differences in educational attainment and income. We argue that in a system that streams students into … the tracking age increased gender differences in the probability of choosing the academic secondary education and in the … probability of continuing into academic tertiary education. The reform had particularily negative effects on boys from non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267344
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Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Höglin, Erik; Johannesson, … - 2010
Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference may be due to discrimination of boys. We rigorously test this in a field experiment where a random sample of the same tests in the Swedish language is subject to blind and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273910
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224921
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Educational Gender Gaps
Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322429