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as girls on reading, math and science tests are nevertheless graded less favorably by their teachers, but this less … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … every case except for black fifth-graders. Boys score at least as well on math and science tests as girls, with the …
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Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
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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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gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school …I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade … national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading …
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the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years. Using a variety of estimation strategies - least squares, matching …
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We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...
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We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by predictions from this framework we find that an increase in...
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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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I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self … partially driven by a lower self-confidence on own math ability of girls exposed to gender biased teachers. The findings are …
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