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likely to attend tertiary education, less likely to attend vocational education, and more likely to end without qualified …' more academically oriented career aspirations and expectations before leaving school. On the one hand, these higher … ambitions allow higher skilled migrants to hieventertiary education despite their less favourable background characteristics. On …
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rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage …
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policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …
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Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are … education systems, new approaches seem relevant, and even necessary, if we consider that traditional methods are often not … complex system approach in education, and to bring to discussion the potential benefits of this perspective to education in …
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. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of … financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance … ; executives ; risk taking ; age ; gender ; education …
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education of their most educated parent, regardless of their gender and this correlation is higher for female than for male … degree of mobility across genders, with a higher mobility level for daughters than for sons. The reason for this gender gap … education. The results of this paper point out also that the educational attainment of children is strongly associated with the …
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How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the … prior tournament is unfair, i.e., a loss is no longer necessarily based on merit, women are more discouraged than men. These …
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women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …
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We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...
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