Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …

later school entry for men and positive effects for women. These gender differences arise despite similar effects on … educational attainment. By unfolding the gender gaps over the lifecycle and assessing fertility directly, delaying motherhood … Daten für die Geburtsjahrgänge 1945 bis 1965 untersuchen wir das rigide deutsche Bildungssystem, in dem Kinder früh nach …

Previous research has identified a gender gap in the difference between teacher grading andscores on national exams at … the end of secondary school. We go a step further and look at howteacher characteristics may influence this gender gap. We … find that exams are relatively morefavorable for boys, regardless of the teacher gender or the gender matching. Results …

performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive … skill distributions by gender across 34 countries. Despite increasing educational equality, inequalities in numeracy skills … favoring men compared to women are pervasive. These skill differences account for a sizable part of the gender wage gap …

While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive … skill distributions by gender across 34 countries. Despite increasing educational equality, inequalities in numeracy skills … favoring men compared to women are pervasive. These skill differences account for a sizable part of the gender wage gap …