Using data from 27 sub-Saharan African countries, I identify the causal effect of sibling gender on education and how … gender, while boys who do not inherit experience a significant negative effect of having a brother. Having a brother has a … small negative effect on the education of girls, regardless of inheritance customs. The effect of sibling gender converges …

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap. …

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …