Do single-sex schools make girls more competitive?

We examine the effect of single-sex schooling on students’ competitiveness by studying middle school students in Seoul who were randomly assigned to either single-sex or coeducational schools within their school districts. Contrary to popular belief and existing studies, our results suggest that single-sex schooling does not reduce the gender gap in competitiveness conditional on student and parental characteristics.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Lee, Soohyung ; Niederle, Muriel ; Kang, Namwook
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 124.2014, 3, p. 474-477
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Single-sex schools \| Sex ratio \| Competitiveness \| Gender gap \| Experiment

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C93 - Field Experiments ; I20 - Education. General ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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