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Adams and Eves: the gender gap in economics majors

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021

We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with...

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The gender gap in mathematics achievement : evidence from Italian data

Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Mendolia, Silvia; Contini, Dalit - 2016

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper …

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Gender stereotypes can explain the gender-equality paradox

Breda, Thomas; Jouini, Elyès; Napp, Clotilde; … - 2020

The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some scholars have explained this paradox by the existence of deeply rooted or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that...

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Societal inequalities amplify gender gaps in math

Breda, Thomas; Jouini, Elyès; Napp, Clotilde - 2019

While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers. Using data from five successive waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that this underrepresentation...

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Culture, gender, and math : a revisitation

Anghel, Brindusa; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Sanz de … - 2019

Using five waves of PISA data spanning the period 2003-2015 and exploiting variation both across- and within-countries, we find that the positive association between the female-male gender gap in math test scores (which on average favors boys) and alternative measures of gender equality vanishes...

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Math, girls and socialism

Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018

resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show …

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Explaining the gender test score gap in mathematics : the role of gender inequality

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Neumeier, Christian; Gevrek, Deniz - 2018

and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage empirical strategy in which the first stage … involves decomposing the gender mathematics gap into a part that is explained by gender differences in observable …

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Born in the family : preferences for boys and the gender gap in math

Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2019

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …

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Does more math in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? : evidence from a curriculum reform

Biewen, Martin; Schwerter, Jakob - 2019

This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in STEM subjects and who later work in STEM occupations. The reform had two important aspects: (i) it...

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