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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005
There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2009
We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … score gap that appears over these same ages. We document the presence of this gender math gap across every strata of society …, we find that earlier results linking the gender gap in math to measures of gender equality are sensitive to the inclusion …
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Gender Differences in Completed Schooling
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2002
mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …
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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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