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The Impact of the “Coding Girls” Program on High School Students’ Educational Choices

Basiglio, Stefania; Boca, Daniela Del; Pronzato, Chiara - 2023

This paper evaluates the impact of “Coding Girls”, an educational enrichment program designed to address the … underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in Italy by stimulating young …. Implemented in ten secondary schools in Turin (Italy) over the period 2019-2022, the Coding Girls program provided lab …

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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

Title IX to instrument for the change in girls' athletic participation. Analysis of differences in outcomes across states in …

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Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe

Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011

We empirically investigate the determinants of the female decision of investing in post-secondary education, focusing on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two-period model to analyze the female decision of investing in...

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Does parental education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...

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Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2008

Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of … building girls' schools in protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show …

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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...

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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration

Belloc, Marianna - 2012

Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...

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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists

Avery, Christopher - 2020

influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …

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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages

Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020

This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...

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