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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …
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Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered …
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xperiment designed to increase property tax compliance to investigate this gender disparity. Our findings reaffirm that women ar …
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This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …
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technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The … results show that improving communication technology increases female economic participation with the following consistent …
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A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...
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This study examines linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) dynamics, inequality and poverty in … promote gender inclusive education in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Poverty is measured with the poverty … personal computers to increase inclusive education, the Gini coefficient, Palma ratio and poverty headcount (% of the …
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income … from workers to capitalists. Further, the overall effect of an increase in education depends on the actual characteristics …
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