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Gender Gaps in PISA Test Scores: The Impact of Social Norms and the Mother's Transmission of Role Attitudes
González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The existence of gender gaps in test scores has been documented in the relevant literature for a wide range of countries. In particular, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD over the past ten years reveals that on average female students underperform...
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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayioglu-Tayfur, Meltem; Koc, Ismet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...
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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...
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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because their innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. Single-sex environments are likely to modify students’ risk-taking preferences in economically...
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours...
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component …
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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US … are especially low for immigrants from countries with low divorce rates that reside amidst a large number of co …
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Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?
Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
receives support from data on the living arrangements of second-generation immigrants in the US. Both in 1970 and 2000, by … country of origin, the US living arrangements of second-generation immigrants mimic those in Europe across countries …
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
causality we look at the behavior of second generation immigrants in the US and we employ a variable based on the grammatical …
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Cultural Integration in Germany
Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … immigrants are differences in marital behavior as well as language abilities, ethnic identification and religious distribution. A …. These indicators are also presented. All of these indicators are depicted in comparison between natives and immigrants …
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