Burgess, Simon; McConnell, Brendon; Propper, Carol; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003
possible explanations for the underachievement of boys relative to girls, the so-called ‘gender gap’. We employ a national … half a million pupils in over 3000 schools. Our key result is the sheer consistency of the gender gap, across both the … ineffective. Nor is it affected by any of the leading observable school characteristics. The generality of the gender gap suggests …