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The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - 2021
Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324795
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard W. - 2013
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082137
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Girls Helping Girls : The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices
Schøne, Pål - 2017
We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962264
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Sexual Violence, Title IX and Women's College Enrollment
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016
data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979449
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Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production : Evidence from Pakistan
Reis, Hugo - 2015
The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling and mothers' labor market participation decision, in a rural area of Pakistan where drop-out rates are considerably high. The model incorporates home production, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009504
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Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829930
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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women's Educational Attainment and Wages
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2021
Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318317
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Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement
Doris, Aedin - 2012
than serving a particular socio-economic group. We exploit this fact to test whether the gender composition of schools … single-sex schooling reduces the gap. If anything, the gender differential is larger for children educated in single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099100
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2012
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106643
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The Effect of Village-Based Schools : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
Burde, Dana - 2012
and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …
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