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The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School
Zölitz, Ulf - 2020
counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to … high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … show that studying with more female peers in business school increases gender segregation in educational choice and affects …
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The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
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High-Performing Peers and Female Stem Choices in School
Mouganie, Pierre - 2019
Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There are concerns that this is related to academic choices made at an earlier age. The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM choices as...
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The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes
Gorman, Emma - 2019
We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....
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Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation
Kramer, Anica - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
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High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
math and language. The impact of gifted students is, however, highly heterogeneous along three dimensions. First, we … presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …
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The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...
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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2022
design, we show that high-achieving classrooms improve math test scores by 23 percent of a standard deviation, with effects …
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Long-Term Effects of School-Starting-Age Rules
Oosterbeek, Hessel; ter Meulen, Simon; Klaauw, Bas - 2021
To study the long-term effects of school-starting-age rules in a setting with early ability tracking, we exploit the birth month threshold used in the Netherlands. We find that students born just after the threshold perform better at the end of primary school than students born just before it....
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Money or Fun? Why Students Want to Pursue Further Education
Belfield, Chris - 2016
socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education …
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