colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological …

impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap. …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …