Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes

Justine Herve (), Subha Mani, Jere Behrman, Arindam Nandi (), Anjana Sankhil Lamkang () and Ramanan Laxminarayan ()
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Justine Herve: Fordham University
Arindam Nandi: CDDEP
Anjana Sankhil Lamkang: CDDEP
Ramanan Laxminarayan: CDDEP

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Abstract: Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but di?er 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 ?nd steep socioeconomic and attitude gradients in both cognitive and noncognitive skills, with bigger e?ect 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 signi?cantly associated with the gender gaps in both cognitive and noncognitive skills.

Keywords: Cognitive skills; Noncognitive skills; Gender attitudes; Gender; India; Children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 J13 J16 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2021-01-31
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