performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

Using Greek administrative data, we examine the impact of being randomly assigned to a classroom with a same-gender top … records, which positions them as role models. Both male and female students are influenced by the performance of a same-gender … positive effects from the presence of a same-gender role model. Specifically, female students improved their science test …

study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …

, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work … can reconcile the common decline of both gender gaps …

India. We measure teacher s bias through an index capturing teacher s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls attitude …

elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls' interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

Teachers' stereotypical assessments widen the gender gap in earnings and formal sector employment after high school …, irrespective of gender. …

We explore the relationship between sibling sex composition, gender inequality and girls' locus of control. Among girls …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …