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 …

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 …

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

India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls' attitude …

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

, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the … learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few studies have spoken directly on the gender pay disparities in the legal academy … nationally representative survey to date of tenured law professors in the United States, to track how gender and race are tied to …

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