We use the last two waves of the Italian Time Use Survey to analyse the intergenerational transmission of reading … effect: on the day of the survey children are more likely to read after seeing either the mother or the father reading. …

In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …)equality also contributes to girls' disadvantage. For reading, at the upper end of the talent distribution, girls' advantage can be …