Conventional wisdom holds that gender gaps in schooling favoring males in developing
countries generally are large, though probably declining. In this article we re‐examine …

GENDER INEQUALITIES IN primary school enrollment have declined in recent decades in
low-income countries, leading some observers to assume that disparities in educational …

International relations would be a very different discipline today were it not for the
contributions of Robert O. Keohane. The citation trail alone, which passes through countless …

Two trends in international migration flows have attracted much attention recently:(i) the
growing feminisation of migration flows; and (ii) the increasing selectivity of migration …

Educational mobility captures the association between parents' and adult children's
schooling attainment. Along with measures of occupational and economic mobility, it …

This study examines the causal relationship between childhood immigrants' age at arrival
and their life chances as adults. I analyze panel data on siblings from Norwegian …

In 1980 Caldwell hypothesized that the time of the onset of the fertility transition in
developing countries would be linked with the achievement of “mass formal schooling.” This …

Drawing on recent research on education in developing countries, this article examines
gender inequality in schooling in Turkey. Using a nationally representative sample of …

Arabs in Israel are a heterogeneous but largely underprivileged minority with a history of
disadvantage in several domains, including education and employment. In this paper, we …

Gender bias in family formation, such as sex selected-abortion, imbalance of the sex ratio,
child abandonment, and sibling size/order in relation to fertility is well documented in China …