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We study whether racial disparities in economic opportunity appear at an early age. Using administrative education data linked to tax records, we study the income-achievement gap across different races and find important variation. The income-achievement gap is small for East Asian children...
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happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
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, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …
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We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across … birth cohorts. Our approach differs from the existing literature, which exploits variation in gender composition at a given … generally yields spurious gender peer effects when there is grade retention. The birth cohort approach applied to primary …
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