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We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...
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It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...
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Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory secular education from five to eight years. We employ a unique nation-wide survey of adults in 2012 to investigate the impact of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political...
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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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Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may reflect a common change in the relative price of a skill...
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and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …
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The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers …, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this … paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in Israeli …
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mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …
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. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
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Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but …
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