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hardly any effects of teacher's gender, age, pay level, qualifications, or working hours on boys' or girls' school track … recommendations or school choice. Even when following students into middle school, no effects of elementary-school teacher gender on …
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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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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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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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expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …
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. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which … explains such interaction through role model effect or Pygmalion effect, we explain such interaction in terms of gender based … positive gender matching effect only for urban, private schools. We find support for our theoretical predictions when we test …
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, and whether these effects differ by gender. Using detailed students' data from an Italian university, combined with … students who acquire citizenship, particularly among males, leading to a reduction in gender gaps. Moreover, gender gaps are … smaller and show a more pronounced decrease with citizenship as gender inequality in countries increases. Results are …
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Using data from a randomized control trial in Uruguay, we evaluate the impact of an economic and financial education program targeted to senior high-school students. The program is based on an innovative playful approach workshop about monetary policy and financial supervision. We find that the...
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This paper aims to identify the potential influence of financial literacy's marginal change on households' income (wealth) inequality levels both at the mean value and along with the distribution value. Using data from the Bank of Italy Survey of Households Income and Wealth (SHIW)'s 2016 wave -...
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gender that favor men, by marital status and gender that favor married men over married women, and by gender, marital, and … forced out of the labor force to care for children as prescribed by gender norms and the division and specialization of labor …
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