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 …

Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …