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This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases … teachers increases. The positive same-gender effect on test scores is counteracted by a negative assessment effect. That is …
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of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …
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Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft...
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of market power on the share of females in top management positions using data from a market in which some firms have market power due to an institutionalized cartel. We investigate collegiate athletics and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief...
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, therefore, use a unique example to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. Here, the …
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We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass ceiling highlights the belief that the...
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We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the posterior probability that men's upward income mobility...
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An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … gender gap in tournament entry. …
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of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight from … inbuilt bias against female members under patriarchy. In terms of a policy agenda, especially in the context of social and …
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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender … attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater for younger than …
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