Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For the closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrants allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality.
Design/methodology/approach
Using PISA 2012 matched with the gender wage gap sourced from World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Index 2011, the author compares the effect of the wage gap among the areas of mathematics, science and reading.
Findings
Decreased gender wage gap leads to girls exhibiting a reduced incidence of lateness and skipping school compared with boys, which in turn improves girls’ test scores in mathematics, science and reading. The direct effect of the decreased wage gap on test scores exceeds its indirect effect on performance owing to influencing school attendance.
Originality/value
The findings of this paper provide evidence that higher female wage level relative to male wage level incentivizes female students to attend school, resulting in their achieving higher test scores not only for mathematics, but also for science and reading.
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Cited by
3 articles.
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1. Factors predicting mathematics achievement in PISA: a systematic review;Large-scale Assessments in Education;2023-06-20
2. Gender Differences in School Achievement;International Handbook of Comparative Large-Scale Studies in Education;2022
3. Gender Differences in School Achievement;International Handbook of Comparative Large-Scale Studies in Education;2022