Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education …-India level are robust to the statistical method and the education expenditure measure, while they are more sensitive to changes …

The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …: girls perform relatively better in both maths and reading in societies where gender equality is enhanced, and the effect …

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 …

of a standard deviation in the gender gap in maths from primary to secondary school in the UK, and show that adolescent … development contributes to explain almost two thirds of the widening of the math gender gap during the adolescence years. We also … relationships between adolescent development and the increase in the gender gap in math in secondary school …

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …

We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional … votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for apprenticeships …. Results show that adolescent males in regions with stronger traditional social gender norms are more likely to apply for …

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 …

We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … it is important to avoid generalisations on the presence of gender gaps in attitudes towards competition. This being the …

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …