Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature … increases the academic achievement of all students. Nevertheless, the identification of pure gender effects remains a challenge … paper disentangles pure "academic" peer effects and "gender" peer effects.Our estimations reveal that the higher the share …

and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …

: (1) to analyse whether the gender of elected politicians is relevant to the educational achievements of residents of the … same gender; (3) to explore the possible channels through which these relationships operate. By applying instrumental … gender: women’s political agency affects the education of a significantly larger number of girls than boys. Finally, none of …

The gender gap measured by average number of years of schooling for the Brazilian population had favored the male …