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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437075
Much research has shown that having a better class of degree has significant payoff in the labour market. Using administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post-primary school achievement is an important predictor: Its...
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Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public …
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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 … females are more likely to enter the education and health sectors while males are more likely to enter the more lucrative … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
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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 … females are more likely to enter the education and health sectors while males are more likely to enter the more lucrative … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
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advantage in explaining the gender gap in college STEM major choice. For these reasons, it is important to understand why … plausible pathway is through teachers. We study gender differences in teacher evaluations of student comparative advantage … differences in teacher judgement by gender do not provide another reason for the gender gap in STEM. …
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We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …
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