expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are … education does not matter. …

education does not matter. The relationships though dealing with a gender-specific issue do not exhibit gender … expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student …

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 …

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 …

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … achievement across and within countries. Chapter 3 hereby employs novel machine-learning methods to derive intertemporal … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which … positive gender matching effect only for urban, private schools. We find support for our theoretical predictions when we test …In this paper we examine whether students' and teachers' identity play any role in the learning outcome of students …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … study stream at the higher-secondary level of education. A household fixed effects regression shows that girls are 20 …

India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other …We investigate the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on the learning outcomes of secondary school students in … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the postsecondary level of … study stream at the higher-secondary level of education. A household fixed effects regression shows that girls are 20 …