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 …

This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female … gender and child outcome matter. …

by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where … is increasing rapidly, and to close the gender gap in the labour market. The health and pension systems play a …

living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test … that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on … (as opposed to math-specific) gender stereotypes on the math gender gap, and suggest that parents' gender social norms …

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 …

whether negative feedback in the form of relatively low grades in major-related classes explains gender differences in the … 2009-2016 to test whether women are more sensitive to grades than men, and whether the gender composition of major … school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students’ decisions …

ineffectual. Spurred by student grievances, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights recently began investigating … how sexual assault cases were handled at a number of institutions under the Title IX provisions of the Education …-level panel data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college …

Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform … men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures … entrepreneurs. Hence, there is scope to make further progress on gender equality. The share of the parental leave reserved for each …

In an effort to reduce the gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM … scientists might act as role models and counteract negative gender stereotypes that are pervasive in science fields. However, as … of yet, there is still no clear evidence on the role of mentor or advisor gender in reducing the STEM gender gap. We use …