David Autor|David Figlio|Krzysztof Karbownik|Jeffrey Roth|Melanie Wasserman
School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement
University of Florida|Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
recent evidence indicates boys girls differently affected quantity quality family inputs received childhood assess whether also true schooling inputs using matched florida birth school administrative records estimate causal effect school quality gender gap educational outcomes contrasting oppositesex siblings attend sets schoolsthereby purging family heterogeneityand leveraging withinfamily variation school quality arising family moves investigating middle school test scores absences suspensions find boys benefit girls cumulative exposure higher quality schools