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The Heterogeneous Effect of Affirmative Action on Performance
Bracha, Anat - 2018
This paper experimentally investigates the effect of gender-based affirmative action (AA) on performance in the lab, focusing on a tournament environment. The tournament is based on GRE math questions commonly used in graduate school admission, and at which women are known to perform worse on...
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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?
Stoddard, Christiana - 2010
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761768
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Can Online Off-the-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2016
potential benefits of this innovation are unknown. To present evidence on this, we analyze an experiment in which middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987129
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Recruiting Effective Math Teachers : How Do Math Immersion Teachers Compare?: Evidence from New York City
Boyd, Donald - 2010
School districts often struggle to recruit and retain effective math teachers. Alternative-route certification programs aim to expand the pool of teachers available; however, many alternate routes have not been able to attract large numbers of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143174
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The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels : Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
This paper uses a new data source, American Mathematics Competitions, to examine the gender gap among high school …
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Born in the Family : Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Dossi, Gaia - 2019
We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893132
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Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement
Dee, Thomas S. - 2009
science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between …
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Persistency in Teachers’ Grading Bias and Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes : University Admissions Exams and Choice of Field of Study
Lavy, Victor - 2019
Recent research has focused on what shapes gender differences in academic achievement and students' choice of university field of study. In this paper we examine how teachers' gender role attitudes and stereotypes influence the gender gap by affecting the school environment. We explore the...
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Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
Biasi, Barbara; Sarsons, Heather - 2022
Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public-school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers' pay more flexibly and engage in individual negotiations. Using quasi-exogenous variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092958
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On the Origins of Gender Human Capital Gaps : Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases
Lavy, Victor - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers' gender biases on boys' and girls' academic achievements during middle and high school and on the choice of advanced level courses in math and sciences during high school. For identification, we rely on the random assignments of...
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