The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills.I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …

of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears … when own education is added to the model. Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly predictive of education …

they complete their education, establish separate households and form their own families. We find that the labor market …

increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …

In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … publishing, promotion, and tenure.While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …

The economics literature on gender has expanded considerably in recent years, fueled in part by new sources of data …, including from experimental studies of gender differences in preferences and other traits. At the same time, economists have … culture and social norms. Despite these innovations much of the economics of gender has been left behind, and still employs a …