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and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically … provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …
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each GPA level, we find that gender differences in post-secondary expectations, controlling for school ability, and as …
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science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between … matter is limited and contradictory. In this study, I present new empirical evidence on whether assignment to a same-gender … based on these data indicate that assignment to a same-gender teacher significantly improves the achievement of both girls …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing … 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap, respectively. These differences cannot be explained by other judge …
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women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men …
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characteristics of the school account for the entire difference in the treatment effect by gender …
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We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …
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education gains, although not for Southern blacks. Using newly-digitized data, we show that education increases are primarily … explained by suffrage-induced growth in education spending, although early-life health improvements may have also contributed …
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We evaluate the long-term effects of a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design. Ten years later, primary school-age children in villages selected for the program attend school more often and score significantly higher on standardized...
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We estimate the causal impact of school and classroom gender composition on achievement. We take advantage of the …-sex classes, and coed schools with mixed-gender classes. Male students attending single-sex classes within coed schools score 0 ….10 of a standard deviation below male students in mixed-gender classes, and this achievement gap is entirely accounted for …
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