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Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497975
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Gender and educational achievement: stylized facts and causal evidence
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430687
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Gender and educational achievement : stylized facts and causal evidence
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437075
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269866
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Gender Differences in Graduate Degree Choices
Delaney, Judith M.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2024
little attention paid to subsequent study decisions of graduates. Given the increased importance of graduate education in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533899
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Choosing Differently? College Application Behavior and the Persistence of Educational Advantage
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2020
We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting laboratory for this analysis as applicants provide a preference-ordering of college programs (majors)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269929
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How Gender and Prior Disadvantage Predict Performance in College
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269977
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208717
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Choosing Differently? College Application Behavior and the Persistence of Educational Advantage
Delaney, Judith - 2020
We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting laboratory for this analysis as applicants provide a preference-ordering of college programs (majors)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833877
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Gender and Educational Achievement : Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249115