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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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marriage market returns to numeracy for either gender. The second explanation is that the Indonesian education system appears …This paper measures the evolution of the gender differences in numeracy among school age children using a longitudinal … that any changes in the gender gap are caused by actual changes in numeracy. To my knowledge, this is the first study that …
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-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender … differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …
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analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional … factors, cohort effect and social/ family background we find that the higher an individual’s education level, the older they … are when they first marry. We find that the effect of education is much stronger for females than for males. …
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by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …
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parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …
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Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational process. Home computers might be very useful for completing...
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