This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels as …

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …