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Becker meets Ricardo : multisector matching with social and cognitive skills
McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - 2012
communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537710
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SISTA: learning optimal transport costs under sparsity constraints
Carlier, Guillaume; Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred; … - 2021
In this paper, we describe a novel iterative procedure called SISTA to learn the underlying cost in optimal transport problems. SISTA is a hybrid between two classical methods, coordinate descent ("S"-inkhorn) and proximal gradient descent ("ISTA"). It alternates between a phase of exact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519120
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745235
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The COVID-19 pandemic and school closure: learning loss in mathematics in primary education
Contini, Dalit; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Muratori, Caterina - 2021
' performance in mathematics (-0.19 standard deviations). Among children of low-educated parents, the learning loss was larger for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649540
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Tackling the gender gap in mathematics with active learning methodologies
Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Contini, Dalit; De Rosa, Dalila; … - 2021
solving. We evaluate the causal effect of the intervention on the gender gap in mathematics in Italy with a randomized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593007
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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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Speaking in numbers : the effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
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Your move : the effect of chess on mathematics test scores
Gumede, Kamilla; Rosholm, Michael - 2015
We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in … mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a …
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Math matters! : the importance of mathematical and verbal skills for degree performance
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both … are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137038
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979664