gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that … boys is however too small to explain more than a fraction of the gender gap in educational outcomes. Furthermore, we find … other causes of the gender gap. …

identified gender inequality as a common predictor for such child health deprivations. At household level, studies support this … fathers' education; thus, the gender perspective is incomplete. Therefore, this paper investigates how and through which …

identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The … gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … educational attainment and that in the absence of such unequal treatment the reverse gender gap would be even larger. We find …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …