This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns … controlling for selection. In addition, the paper estimates the returns for higher education; for this level, the rate of return …

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method … assembles a new data set covering all employees at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 and shows that historical …

and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …

countries and was reformed in 2008 to alleviate old- age poverty and reduce gender pension gaps. The paper estimates the dynamic … decisions to analyze how the design of a privatized pension system affects gender pension gaps. Chile has one of the longest … significantly reduce gender pension gaps: expanding minimum pension benefit eligibility, providing a per-child pension bonus, and …