outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural residents using the Turkish Demographic and Health Surveys. This policy is … women. The policy equalizes the educational attainment of urban and rural children substantially. The urban-rural gap in the … completed years of schooling at age 17 falls by 0.5 years for men and by 0.7 to 0.8 years for women. However, there is no …

address the poor access to formal education, we designed an educational intervention consisting of a set of audio lessons that … Bangladesh during the 2021 Covid-19 school closures. The intervention improved the test scores of children in literacy and …

changed the educational aspirations of young women and possibly enhanced the support of young women in school. To this end, I … women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for … each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This effect is sizeable given a mean level of exposure of 11 years and …

The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …: girls perform relatively better in both maths and reading in societies where gender equality is enhanced, and the effect …

This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female … gender and child outcome matter. …

the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …

analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely …

This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the … epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living … gender equality in the parents' country of ancestry. We find that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of …

living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test … women's political empowerment and economic opportunity; and (3) are driven by parents' influencing their children … that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on …

national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading … gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school …