A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in … preferences in examination behavior. Students have the possibility of attaining a seminar bonus on the final exam for near … initial quizzes can either be accepted as is, or students can attempt to improve their marks by answering similar quiz …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that …

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … students in countries with high - quality education. This phenomenon, as the usual brain drain, has two opposite effects on …

In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …