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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes

Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

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Marriage, partnership and sexual orientation: a study of British university academics and administrators

Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2008

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268691

Education, matching and the allocative value of romance

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2005

Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation: A Study of British University Academics and Administrators

Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762072

Increasing returns to education and the skills under-investment trap

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2005

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...

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Do single-sex classes affect exam scores? An experiment in a coeducational university

Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - 2013

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...

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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions

Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016

norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …

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Training in Europe

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …

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Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 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...

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