We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …

's education is strongest at the post-primary levels. Our results suggest that there is strong gender bias in intergenerational …

evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap. …

evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of intergenerational … India. The gender gap closes in urban India when the father is college educated, but not in rural areas. The college … educated urban households achieve gender convergence despite persistent bias against the daughters in educational expenditure …

's degree. We measure gender norms using economic outcomes as well as beliefs prevailing in the migrants' parents' country of …Cross-country differences in the gender gap of higher education attainment are large. In this paper, we study the role … of gender norms for this particular gender gap. To isolate the effect of gender norms from institutional and economic …

degree of mobility across genders, with a higher mobility level for daughters than for sons. The reason for this gender gap … education of their most educated parent, regardless of their gender and this correlation is higher for female than for male …