This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

We investigate the impact of a change in the gender composition of the pool of candidates on the academic performance … of women in an entrance exam. We use data from a natural experiment that altered the gender composition of the candidates …, highlighting the nuanced impact of gender composition on women's performance in high-stakes exams. …

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 …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …