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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...
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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 …
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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...
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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
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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010
The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...
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Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?
Lindo, Jason M. - 2011
We consider the relationship between collegiate-football success and non-athlete student performance. We find that the team's success significantly reduces male grades relative to female grades. This phenomenon is only present in fall quarters, which coincides with the football season. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117383
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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011
research on the influence of female leadership, we find no effect of gender of the mayor on policy outcomes related to the size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117391
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The Trouble with Boys : Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior
Bertrand, Marianne - 2011
This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …
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