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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283120
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Peer gender and schooling: evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2021
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549728
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on … individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772350
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Rank effects in education : what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
gender gap in STEM. However, the state of knowledge has probably not reached the point where the empirical findings from this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168737
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Sibling rivalry in educational attainment : the German case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336863
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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411661
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Gender role models and early career decisions
Löwe, Monique; Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2021
gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607597
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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433603
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo's school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2013
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757290
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When do gender wage differences emerge? : a study of Azerbaijan's labor market
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Sinha, Nistha; … - 2016
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450099