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 …

Effect," where an initial advantage is self-amplifying. We find that entrepreneurs who obtain university education are more … entrepreneurs have significantly better future firm outcomes compared to those without a university education. Furthermore, we find …

males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at … detailed administrative data from the centralized college entrance system, I study the impact of gender differences in … unassigned and in relative preferences for school attributes can explain much of the gender gap at the most elite programs. …

in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education …, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …

territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …

happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … females are more likely to enter the education and health sectors while males are more likely to enter the more lucrative … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …

gender gap in STEM. However, the state of knowledge has probably not reached the point where the empirical findings from this …

firms depending on their export status and the gender of their owners. We find that female-owned exporters have roughly half …

In this paper we examine the linkages between involvement into global value chains (GVCs) and the gender wage … added embodied in exports (FVA/Exp.) We augment the Mincerian regression with GVC variable and report gender wage … lower. However, the relationship between GVC and wages differs in respect to gender; women are more affected by the negative …