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Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2008
that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766100
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Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland
Eisenkopf, Gerald; Hessami, Zohal; Fischbacher, Urs; … - CESifo - 2011
We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational and single-sex classes on the academic performance of female high school students. Our estimation results show that single-sex schooling improves the performance of female students in mathematics. This positive effect increases if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320786
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656
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Luther and the Girls : Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2008
that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769926
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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020579
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984501
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Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland
Eisenkopf, Gerald; Hessami, Zohal; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2021
We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational and single-sex classes on the academic performance of female high school students. Our estimation results show that single-sex schooling improves the performance of female students in mathematics. This positive effect increases if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315970
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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316244
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Optimal Policy and the Risk Properties of Human Capital Reconsidered
Anderberg, Dan - 2008
This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768814
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Individual Investments in Education and Health : Policy Responses and Interactions
Carbone, Jared C. - 2016
education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … education would require large imperfections in these markets to be more welfare improving than distributional policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978378