' programming skills and on their awareness of gender differences in the workforce. However, it did not seem to affect girls …' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …This paper evaluates the impact of "Coding Girls", an educational enrichment program designed to address the …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment … adverse effects are more pronounced for students from low-income areas, in larger classrooms, or with fewer female peers … disruptive peers. …

Gender-based violence (GBV) at schools is a pervasive problem that affects millions of adolescent girls worldwide. In … girls’ education, we randomized not only exposure to the intervention but also whether the student component was targeted to … girls only, boys only, or both. Our findings indicate a reduction in sexual violence by teachers and school staff against …

-performing girls compared to top-performing boys. Estimated effects are more pronounced among teachers with children and teachers in …’ and girls’ educational outcomes that could justify the differences in teachers’ gender perceptions. These findings carry … the profiled top performers to be influential role models. These profiles varied by gender and field of study (STEM or Non …

higher share of female classmates is associated with reduced disruptive behavior for boys and improved engagement for girls … that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and … and subsequent test scores in STEM subjects and increases STEM college participation, especially for girls. Second, a …

in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the effects of a specially designed information campaign to the …