In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …

We document gender differences in reactions to failure in the National College Entrance Exam, an extremely high … gender disparity in the tendency to retake has important implications for exam performance, college enrollment, and labor …

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap. …

This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …

differential along gender, socioeconomic and geographical dimensions in India. We have found a salient differential in the … attainment of higher education across gender subgroups, social groups and also across the quintiles of economic variables. We … history of India. These analyses show that while gender based differential is fast declining over time, the social group based …

-stakes performance in selection processes may come along with gender differences unrelated to the determinants of subsequent performance. …

Cross-country differences in the gender gap of higher education attainment are large. In this paper, we study the role … of gender norms for this particular gender gap. To isolate the effect of gender norms from institutional and economic …'s degree. We measure gender norms using economic outcomes as well as beliefs prevailing in the migrants' parents' country of …

-by university opening, closing the local gender gap in university education by about 72%. Third, I provide evidence that local …