decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …

We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures … is the sole source of differential gender outcomes. …

This study uses a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive … providing insights into the underpinnings of the factors hypothesized to be determinants of the observed gender differences in …

grows rapidly in the early school years, particularly in reading, after correction for measurement error, the education …-scaled gap is large, exceeds the actual black-white education gap and is roughly constant. Strikingly, the gap in all grades is …

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

A defining characteristic of charter schools is that they introduce a strong market element into public education. In …