estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective …-age. To control for selective migration, we instrument the migration decision using inflows of immigrants to the US during … puberty and early adulthood. We find that migration causes men to marry up and women to marry down, but self-selection into …

developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in …-grade and student gender by grade fixed effects, we find that both male and female teachers are more effective at teaching … students of their own gender; (3) However, female teachers are more effective overall, resulting in girls' test scores …

mobility, particularly among men, but it somewhat exacerbated the gender gap in adult earnings.Institutional subscribers to the …

human capital contributing to explain the residual. Other mechanisms such as changes in fertility, migration, and investment …

We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last … changes in industry and age composition to the change in the gender composition of top earners. A large proportion of the … gender gaps over the life cycle, and gender differences among lifetime top earners …

A combination of changing migration patterns and US immigration restrictions acted to shift the male-female balance in …

educational outcomes. Analyzing the association of gender, immigrant status, and family background factors with scores, we find …

migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education … distribution, but show that there is no evidence for selection of migrants on cognitive ability. We demonstrate that migrants are … proxies of the costs of migration, we find substantially less evidence of "intermediate selection" on observed skill. We find …