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, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students’ participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141030
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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can be reconciled by gender differences in nonpecuniary costs of school attendance, myopia, or perceived returns to … education. The findings suggest that due to these gender differences, economic booms misallocate young men away from school …, entrenching the gender gap in education. …
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can be reconciled by gender differences in nonpecuniary costs of school attendance, myopia, or perceived returns to … education. The findings suggest that due to these gender differences, economic booms misallocate young men away from school …, entrenching the gender gap in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358106
I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test...
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]sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …
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