Gender-matching school environments may provide benefits for girls to enhance their performance. By using PISA data … from South Korea, this paper suggests that the effects of single-sex schooling and a student-teacher's gender matching are … heterogeneous across different student groups. The gender-matching school environments are most positive to non-cognitive outcomes …

Using data from the 2012 PISA across 56 countries, this study examines the link between societal gender inequalities … and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage empirical strategy in which the first stage … involves decomposing the gender mathematics gap into a part that is explained by gender differences in observable …

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 …

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education … have more favorable traits except Conscientiousness; Over the life cycle, gender and socioeconomic gaps widen in Openness …

activities has been hetero-geneous over education levels and among schools. Using a real time survey data collected in April 2020 …

IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …, a significant, but small gender achievement gap amounting to 10% of a country-level standard deviation is confirmed in …

gender roles in the long-run. This shift in attitudes is accompanied by changes in actual behavior: employing friendship …

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in … or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are …-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a …

of a standard deviation in the gender gap in maths from primary to secondary school in the UK, and show that adolescent … development contributes to explain almost two thirds of the widening of the math gender gap during the adolescence years. We also … relationships between adolescent development and the increase in the gender gap in math in secondary school. …