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Are Brothers Really Better? Sibling Sex Composition and Educational Achievement Revisited
Kaestner, Robert - 2021
In this paper, I examine the relationship between sibling sex composition and educational achievement. First, I replicate the study of Butcher and Case (1994) using data on a more recent birth cohort. Contrary to the findings of that study, I find basically no effect of sibling sex composition...
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How'S Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2021
the main variables used, a report of results and tests, and discussion of the links among social capital, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234031
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Education and Religion
Sacerdote, Bruce; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249351
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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth
Hanushek, Eric A.; Kim, Dongwook - 2000
Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158648
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Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection : Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011
Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129135
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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"
Du, Qingyuan - 2011
Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130254
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Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions
Flory, Jeffrey - 2010
observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135766
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Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2010
Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136025
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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race
Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137306
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The Gender Gap Cracks Under Pressure : A Detailed Look at Male and Female Performance Differences During Competitions
Cotton, Christopher - 2010
analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137312