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 …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational … evidence showing no change in homework time or other "intermediate" inputs in education. …

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls …

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 …

physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their …

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender …