Reading List

1. Introduction, overview, gender gap in compulsory schooling and high school

Bertrand, M. (2010), New Perspectives on Gender, Ch. 17, Handbook of Labor
Economics, Vol 4b. pp. 1545-1592

Fryer, R. G. Jr. and S. Levitt, (2010) An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in
Mathematics. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2(2): 210240.

Joensen, J. S. and H. S. Nielsen (2007), "Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on
Labor Market Outcomes?", Journal of Human Resources 44(1): 171-198

Entwisle, D. R., Alexander, K. L., & Olson, L. S.(2007). Early schooling: The handicap of
being poor and male. Sociology of Education. 80:114 138.

Angrist, J. and V. Lavy (2009), The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement
Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial, American Economic Review, Vol. 99 (4) pp.
1384-1414.

Amato, P. (2000) The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children, Journal of
Marriage and Family, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Nov., 2000), pp. 1269-1287

Dee, T. (2011), "Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare
Experiment," Economics of Education Review 30(5), October 2011, 924-937

Machin, S., and S. McNally (2005), Gender and Student Achievement in English
Schools, Oxford Review of Economic Policy Vol. 21 No. 3

Lavy, V. (2008), Do gender stereotypes reduce girls or boys human capital outcomes?
Evidence from a natural experiment, Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 20832105.


2. Gender of the teacher and Peer Effects

Dee,T.(2006). The Why Chromosome: How a Teachers Gender Affects Boys and Girls.
Education Next. 6(4): 68-75.

Dee, T., (2007) Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement. The Journal of
Human Resources Vol. 42 (3): 528-554.

Holmlund, H. and K. Sund (2008), Is the gender gap in school performance affected by
the sex of the teacher?, Labour Economics Vol. 15 p. 37-53.

Chetty, R, J. Friedman and J. Rockoff (2011), The Long-term Impacts of Teachers:
Teacher Value-added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood, NBER working paper series,
working paper 17699.

Rockoff, J, D. Staiger, T. Kane and E. Taylor (2011), Information and Employee
Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools, American
Economic Review. Forthcoming. (version February, 2011)

Carrell, SE and M. Hoekstra (2010), Externalities in the Classroom: How Children
Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyones Kids American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics 2010, 2:1, 211228

Neidell, Matthew and Waldfogel, Jane. 2010. Cognitive and Noncognitive Peer Effects
in Early Education. Review of Economics and Statistics. 92(3): 562-576.

Lavy, V., O. Silva and F. Weinhardt (2012), The Good, the Bad, and the Average:
Evidence on Ability Peer Effects in Schools, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 30, No. 2
(April 2012), pp. 367-414.

Beaman, R., K. Wheldall and C. Kemp (2006), Differential teacher attention to boys and
girls in the classroom, Educational Review Vol. 58, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 339366


3. Gender differences in non-cognitive skills (e.g. behavior)
Heckman, James J., Rubinstein, Yona. (2001). The Importance of Noncognitive skills:
Lessons from the GED testing program. American Economic Review. 91(2): 145-149.

Jacob, Brian A (2002) Where the Boys Arent: Non-cognitive Skills, Returns to School
and the Gender Gap in Higher Education. Economics of Education Review. 21(6):589
98.

Bertrand, M. and J. Pan, (2011) The Trouble with the Boys: Social Influence and the
Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior. Working paper, NBER.

Kristoffersen, J. and N. Smith (2012), Bad Boys and Bitches: Gender Differences In The
Effects Of Behavioural Skills On School Outcomes. Unpublished manuscript.

Heckman, James J., Stixrud, Jora and Urzua, Sergio. (2006). The Effects of Cognitive and
Non-Cognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior. Journal of
Labor Economics. 24(3): 411-482

Morefield, G. (2010), Parental Health Events and Childrens Skill Development, draft,
November 2010.

4. Gender gap in college (enrollment, choices and outcomes)

Becker, Gary S., Hubbard, William H.J. and Murphy, Kevin M. (2010) The Market for
College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women. American
Economic Review. 100(2): 229-33.

Goldin, Claudia, Katz, Lawrence F. and Kuziemko, Ilyana. (2006). The Homecoming of
American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap. Journal of
Economic Perspectives. 20(4): 133-156.

Buchmann, C. and T. A. DiPrete, (2006) The Growing Female Advantage in College
Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement. American
Sociological Review, Vol. 71 (4): 515-541

Fortin, Nicole M., Philip Oreopoulos and Shelley Phipps. (2011). Leaving Boys Behind:
Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement. Working Paper, Department of
Economics, UBC.

Carrell, SE, Page, ME & West, JE 2010, 'Sex and Science: How Professor Gender
Perpetuates The Gender Gap', The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, pp. 1101-1144.


5. Explaining the gender gap

Kenney-Benson, G.A., Pomerantz, E.M., Ryan, A.M., Patrick, H. (2006) Sex Differences in
Math Performance: The Role of Childrens Approach to Schoolwork. Developmental
Psychology. Vol. 42, No.1, 11-26.

Niederle, M. and L. Vesterlund (2009) Explaining the Gender Gap in Math Test Scores:
The Role of Competition. Journal of Economic Perspectives. Forthcoming.

Croson, R. and U. Gneezy Gender Differences in Preferences, Journal of Economic
Literature, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Jun., 2009), pp. 448-474.

Duckworth, A. and M. Seligman (2005), Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting
Academic Performance of Adolescents, Psychological Science, Vol 16 (12).

Eckel, C. and P. Grossman (2008), Differences in The Economic Decisions of Men and
Women: Experimental Evidence, Ch. 57., Handbook of Experimental Economics Results,
Vol. 1., pp. 509-519.