We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

transform gender attitudes and promote educational equality in Afghanistan. …

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 …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871 …

Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries …. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender … on gender equality in achievement across different sources: the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871 …

We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …

We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …

The gender gap measured by average number of years of schooling for the Brazilian population had favored the male …

: (1) to analyse whether the gender of elected politicians is relevant to the educational achievements of residents of the … same gender; (3) to explore the possible channels through which these relationships operate. By applying instrumental … gender: women’s political agency affects the education of a significantly larger number of girls than boys. Finally, none of …