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Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In … addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in …
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We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …
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We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …
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An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among …
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Horizontal gender segregation in education negatively impacts both equity and efficiency in the labor market … gender segregation in Italian tertiary education over recent decades. Utilizing high-quality data on individuals born between … 1941 and 1995, we find that parental education significantly shapes offspring's field of study choices. Specifically …
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The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
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students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …
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. Interestingly, the negative effect is stronger for men than for women. Specifically, the gender difference is more salient among the …
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subsequent science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related education and labour market outcomes. Using three …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even …This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …
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Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …
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