This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the
education gender gap and its evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first …

Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender
equalities? To what extent does gender equality foster economic growth and development …

To what extent did sub‐Saharan Africa's twentieth century schooling revolution benefit boys
and girls equally? Using census data and a cohort approach, we examine gender gaps in …

Labour market engagement by women is an important determinant of female autonomy that
may also affect their demographic behaviour. In order to bring about the conditions for the …

Abstract A'Hearn, Delfino, and Nuvolari recently argued in this journal that the indicator
function of age heaping for education, and numeracy in particular, is quite limited. In …

Does higher female autonomy increase human capital formation? To find out, we employ
novel data on numeracy as a proxy for human capital and the demographic indicator female …

Was the European marriage pattern an important contributor to England's precocious
economic development? This article examines this question by embedding the possibility in …

Gender discrimination has been pointed out as a determining factor behind the long-run
divergence in incomes of Southern vis-à-vis Northwestern Europe. In this paper, we show …

Many countries did not accumulate sufficient human capital to be successful, because they
did not make use of the potential of the female half of their population. Other countries did …

This paper analyzes the extent and nature of age-misreporting in the Mosaic data, currently
one of the largest historical census microdata infrastructures for continental Europe. We use …