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gender gap in STEM. However, the state of knowledge has probably not reached the point where the empirical findings from this …
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While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort data on England's secondary schools. Ordinary Least...
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This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...
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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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males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at … detailed administrative data from the centralized college entrance system, I study the impact of gender differences in … unassigned and in relative preferences for school attributes can explain much of the gender gap at the most elite programs. …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
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Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...
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