We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …

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 …

-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find …

, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is …

primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …

This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the … epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living … gender equality in the parents' country of ancestry. We find that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of …

test. Our data show that Muslim and Christian gender norms are as postulated. However, the correlations between Muslim vs …. Christian immigrants and the channels purported to link in-group gender norms to economic progress are weak and inconsistent …. Speculations are offered on the intervening variables that mitigate the effect of Muslim gender norms on economic performance …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …