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Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...
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used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …
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We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....
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favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We … discrimination. -- favoritism ; discrimination ; field experiment ; wage differentials ; economics of education …
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in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education …, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …
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This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students’ major choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to university sections in first-year compulsory courses. We...
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social disadvantage, while FiF women do not. We also show that a substantial share of the graduate gender wage gap is due to …
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We exploit linked survey-administrative data from England to examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among graduate women, FiF graduates earn 8.3% less on average than graduate women whose parents...
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gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the …We examine the dramatic expansion in the Turkish higher education system during 2006-2008, which resulted in the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …
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field of evolutionary psychology, our results indicate a heterogeneous effect of education level by gender: while females …In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success by means of a field … for educational assortative mating, i.e. preferring a partner with a similar education level, on mobile dating apps such …
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