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Gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence: can compulsory schooling reduce it?

Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2020

We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of parents' educational attainment with their...

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Gender gaps in primary school achievement : a decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schils, Trudie - 2014

In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...

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Attainment and gender equality in higher education : evidence from a large scale expansion

Caner, Asena; Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2019

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of … in social sciences benefited men and women evenly, but the expansion in engineering benefited men more than women …

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Gender segregation in education and its implications for labour market outcomes : evidence from India

Sahoo, Soham; Klasen, Stephan - 2018

schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative …

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Gender and educational achievement: stylized facts and causal evidence

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021

There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and achievement than males and this is particularly the case for children from less advantaged backgrounds. Second, there are large differences in the fields of specialization...

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All geared towards success? : cultural origins of gender gaps in student achievement

Holmlund, Helena; Rainer, Helmut; Reich, Patrick - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 209 (2023), pp. 222-242

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Intergenerational educational persistence among daughters : evidence from India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2015

We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962-1991. We find that educational persistence, as measured by the regression coefficient of father's (mother's) education as a predictor of daughter's education, has declined over...

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The effect of higher education on women's obesity and smoking : evidence from college openings in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2022

This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in …

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Education, information, and improved health : evidence from breast cancer screening

Chen, Keith (contributor); Lange, Fabian (contributor) - 2008

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact...

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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009

We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...

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