. Finally, male teenagers and college students wager substantially less when competing against females. In turn, the gender of … gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10–12), 310 teenagers … (aged 13–17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …

(pre-reform) - for good students from less affluent household - on the optimal schooling decision. For the students who …

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …

We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high …-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of different sizes. The data … included information about mathematics and reading scores and student demographics such as gender, race, and SES. Teacher …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected … data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the effects of being … students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation …

. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …

& Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both … ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze the role of gender in repeated Prisoners' Dilemma played by Spanish high …-school students in both a square lattice and a heterogeneous network. We find that female students have a higher probability of …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by … achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …