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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241539
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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021
This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584602
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Does gender and sexual diversity lead to greater conflict in the school?
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Herrera, Alejandro; … - 2022
Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477228
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
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Good schools or good students? : evidence on school effects from universal random assignment of students to high schools
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Kim, Beomsoo; Malamud, Ofer - 2022
How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resulting estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495675
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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023
This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540560
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Learning about oneself : the effects of performance feedback on school choice
Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2016
This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662368
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Re-estimating the gender gap in Colombian academic performance
Munoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014
based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246133
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Shaping gender-stereotypical beliefs : the roleof parents and peers
Carlana, Michela; Corno, Lucia - 2022
parental recommendation affects students’ beliefs on their comparative advantage in math with respect to literature in a gender … whether they are better in male-typed fields (math) versus female-typed fields (literature). We find that thinking about … mothers to recommend it, and boys are 15% more likely to think they are better in math when they expect their fathers to …
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