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Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence : Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce it?
Demirel, Merve - 2020
We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831215
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A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia
Booth, Alison L. - 2010
The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143689
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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie - 2013
problems. A decomposition of the estimates indicates that most of the gender differences in Reading and Math cannot be related … to gender differences in behavioral problems. The large overall gender gap in Reading seems mainly to be the result of … gender differences between children without behavioral problems living in 'normal families', i.e. families which are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081791
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Peer Gender and Schooling : Evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2022
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240828
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780276
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2016
This paper aims to provide information on intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey over the last century (at least over the last 65 years). This is the first study explicitly on providing the association between parents' and children's education in Turkey over time unlike the previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001883
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The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students : The Role of Pre-College Choices
Tincani, Michela Maria; Kosse, Fabian; Miglino, Enrico - 2022
Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243911
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Widening Participation in Higher Education : Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data
Chowdry, Haroon - 2010
This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It is unique in being able to follow two cohorts of students in England ﾖ those who took GCSEs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141731
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Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India : Changes Over Time and Across States
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2010
This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the literature that has operationalized concepts in the inequality of opportunity theory (including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138687
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117624