Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …

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 …

The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …: girls perform relatively better in both maths and reading in societies where gender equality is enhanced, and the effect …

. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …

that feature two novel contributions. Unlike other gender peer effects studies, a) we use a rich sample of schools and …

relevant for children who do not go on to university and can help to understand gender segregation in low and middle … explains the gender gap for the children with low educated parents, it explains part of the gender gap observed for children …

This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … leads to more progressive gender norms. Furthermore, these effects in gender perceptions are driven mostly by male students … to female peers operates not only by reducing traditional gender perceptions but also by changing actual behaviour …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …

of a standard deviation in the gender gap in maths from primary to secondary school in the UK, and show that adolescent … development contributes to explain almost two thirds of the widening of the math gender gap during the adolescence years. We also … relationships between adolescent development and the increase in the gender gap in math in secondary school. …