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 …

Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of human capital formation and education … investigates the impact of gender norms on labor-supply expectations of adolescents. Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of the Corona …

gender and migration background. We find that the educational attainment of girls and migrants relative to their parents is …

effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …

The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS … gender disparities in comparison to: EU-12 and EU-15, using data for the period 1985-2005. The study confirms the existence … of slightly different paths in which gender disparities have evolved over time. While in EU-15 women participation in …

The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular … education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population … on state spending for different areas of education. This research shows that providing respondents with the information …