There is renewed interest in ways to enhance secondary education, especially among disadvantaged students. This study … evaluates the short-term effects of a remedial-education program that provided additional instruction to under-performing high …

. However, when we break up the sample by parents' education and by ethnic origin, we find that disadvantaged children were more …

paper I examine how individual performance in a real work place is affected by a competitive environment and by its gender … ranking, winning rate and awarded prize did not differ by gender nor between teachers in competition groups with only female … male and female teachers or by the type of competitive environment in terms of gender mix of the participants. As for …

The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers …, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this … paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in Israeli …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers’ gender biases on boys’ and girls’ academic … teachers’ biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender— positive effect on boys’ achievements and negative effect … on girls’. Such gender biases also impact students’ enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …