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What accounts for the education gender gap in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province?
Cyan, Musharraf Rasool; Rider, Mark; Price, Michael Keith; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215019
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Assessing the effects of an education policy on women's well-being : evidence from Benin
Deschênes, Sarah; Hotte, Rozenn - 2019 - Preliminary version
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234552
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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2020
A randomized controlled trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive short-term impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men and disappear 12 months after the training. The main channel is increased adoption of recommended business...
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The effectiveness of management training programs : a meta-analytic review
Busso, Matias; Park, Kyunglin; Irazoque, Nicolás - 2023
We conduct a meta-analysis of 44 studies and 68 different managerial skills training programs, with the aim of identifying program characteristics that can lead to more effective public policies promoting firm growth and entrepreneurship. We synthesize 431 estimates to assess the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014460796
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Women in local politics and gender effects on entrepreneurship : evidence from Italian municipalities undergoing a gender quota reform
Falavigna, Greta; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014513654
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The political economy of higher education admission standards and participation gap
De Donder, Philippe; Martinez-Mora, Francisco - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631067
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University quotas and peers' achievement
Giardili, Soledad - 2018
50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the … academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially … enrollment of targeted students due to the affirmative action caused an increase in the variance of academic ability within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812152
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Students' selection and heterogeneous effects of classroom gender composition : evidence from a natural experiment in Switzerland
Pregaldini, Damiano; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Eisenkopf, … - 2018 - First draft, preliminary results
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022816
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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...
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A Chinese puzzle: fewer, less empowered, lower paid and better educated women
Camacho, Carmen; Xue, Yingya - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493439