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Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers...
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home-based online education by exploiting data from two waves of voluntary online surveys. Students with the highest …
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Outcomes related to the wellbeing of students are increasingly being recognized as valuable objectives for education … systems. In this study, we ask if high-stakes testing affects school-related stress among students and if there are gender … that high-stakes testing increases the gender gap in school-related stress. The results are robust to a range of …
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High school track choice determines college access in many countries. We hypothesize that some qualified students avoid the college-bound track simply because they overestimate admission requirements. To test this hypothesis, we designed a randomized field experiment that communicated the...
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There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …
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The gender earnings gap can be attributed either to the different distribution of males and females across jobs or to … identify those firm-worker profiles that exhibit extremely high gender wage differentials We apply the Causal Forest …
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skill use of men compared with women. We argue that having a partner affects skill use through time allocation as the gender …
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, with close to 30 percent of their 17-year-old children being out of education, training, and employment three years after …
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matching in productivity. Finally we assess sorting along observable characteristics, such as gender, education, occupation or …
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inequalities in education. This paper explores whether the reform had an equalizing effect on education resources on the one hand … municipalities had spent significantly more on education than poor ones, while after the reform no difference in school spending can …
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