Arbeitspapier
Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude gradients in both cognitive and noncognitive skills, with bigger effect sizes for the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients. Our results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains would come only from large improvements in household socioeconomic status. Overall, the household socioeconomic and cultural environment is significantly associated with the gender gaps in both cognitive and noncognitive skills.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14132
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education and Economic Development
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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cognitive skills
noncognitive skills
gender attitudes
gender
India
children
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hervé, Justine
Mani, Subha
Behrman, Jere R.
Nandi, Arindam
Sankhil Lamkang, Anjana
Laxminarayan, Ramanan
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hervé, Justine
- Mani, Subha
- Behrman, Jere R.
- Nandi, Arindam
- Sankhil Lamkang, Anjana
- Laxminarayan, Ramanan
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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