This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics …

inclusion of women in the three levels of the national education system and the effects of education materialized in the degree … (annual or monthly), at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold and education level, the identification of gender …The present paper is a synthesis of researching the evolution of gender discrimination during 2002-2013, i.e. the …

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 …

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 …

This paper analyses the impact of grading practices on the gender gap in student achievement. We examine the gender … difference in the difference between teacher grading and scores on national exams to test whether there are gender differences …

This paper investigates empirically how and why men and women are different in their confidence levels. Using the data … students. While ability alone increases confidence and decreases overconfidence, the interaction effect of feminine gender and … ones, while the positive effect of ability on confidence is smaller for females. That being said, the negative gender gap …

We document gender differences in reactions to failure in the National College Entrance Exam, an extremely high … just below the cutoff is more pronounced for men than for women (11 percentage points vs. 5.5 percentage points). The … gender disparity in the tendency to retake has important implications for exam performance, college enrollment, and labor …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of gender composition of teams on performance, self … school students into two groups: we assign students in one group to teams of varying gender composition using random …-formed gender-biased teams prefer even more gender-biased teams ex-post. Our results also show that female-predominant teams under …

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. …