While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive … skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel findings on cognitive … skill distributions by gender across 34 countries. Despite increasing educational equality, inequalities in numeracy skills …

While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive … skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel findings on cognitive … skill distributions by gender across 34 countries. Despite increasing educational equality, inequalities in numeracy skills …

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context … current differences in gender roles across societies. Moreover, it discusses the main drivers of the relationship between … gender equality, economic development and structural change with a focus on the mechanisms driving this complex relationship …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

Gender-matching school environments may provide benefits for girls to enhance their performance. By using PISA data … from South Korea, this paper suggests that the effects of single-sex schooling and a student-teacher's gender matching are … heterogeneous across different student groups. The gender-matching school environments are most positive to non-cognitive outcomes …

living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test … that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on … (as opposed to math-specific) gender stereotypes on the math gender gap, and suggest that parents' gender social norms …

endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries’ general level of gender (in …