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Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement

Doris, Aedin - 2012

This paper examines the determinants of mathematical achievement among primary school children. Previous studies have found that boys perform better in maths than girls, particularly at the upper end of the distribution. It has been suggested in the literature that differences in the size of the...

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Do the Maths : An Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics in Africa

Dickerson, Andrew P. - 2013

This paper uses microdata for 19 African countries to examine the gender difference in maths test scores amongst primary school children. There is a significant difference in maths test scores in favour of boys, similar to that previously observed in developed countries. This difference cannot...

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Is There a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?

Joensen, Juanna Schrøter - 2008

Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Math Culture

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2017

In this study, we provide evidence that parents' beliefs about the value of math, in terms of successful employment, have a positive impact on children's math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality issue that characterizes the relationship between parental attitude and children's...

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Does More Math in High School Increase the Share of Female Stem Workers? Evidence from a Curriculum Reform

Biewen, Martin - 2019

This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in STEM subjects and who later work in STEM occupations. The reform had two important aspects: (i) it...

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Born in the Family : Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math

Dossi, Gaia - 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 …

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Math Matters! The Importance of Mathematical and Verbal Skills for Degree Performance

Delaney, Judith - 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 …

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The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement : Evidence from Italian Data

Di Tommaso, Maria L. - 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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Explaining the Gender Test Score Gap in Mathematics : The Role of Gender Inequality

Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2018

and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage empirical strategy in which the first stage … involves decomposing the gender mathematics gap into a part that is explained by gender differences in observable …

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The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon

Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Sapienza, Paola - 2021

mathematics and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Department of Education … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …

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