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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 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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Why are Single-Sex Schools Successful?

Dustmann, Christian - 2017

worse academic outcomes for both boys and girls, conditional on school fixed effects and time-varying observables. While for … to mixed-gender peers that explains this disadvantage for girls …

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Luther and the Girls : Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 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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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States — looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap : Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2021

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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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...

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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

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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Great Expectations : The Determinants of Female University Enrollment in Europe

Casarico, Alessandra - 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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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data

Flam, Harry - 2011

Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects on the extensive margin and to obtain controls for firm...

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