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Gender Gaps in Education
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class
Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023
This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in...
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Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab
Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2020
If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before choosing whom to hire, they receive information...
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The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822622
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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative …
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L.; Sosa, Cardona; Marcela, Lina; Nolen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …
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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …
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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind
Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
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