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: First, high school records are good predictors of university grades. Second, age and gender do not influence students grade …Studying business economics: An empirical analysis of determinants and predictors of grades This paper is concerned … achievement. Third, the decisions as to majors reveals a mixed result on grades but the number of years spent at the university …
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aggregate concentration. An empirical analysis of the U.S. experience between the early 1950s and the late 1980s reveals two …
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Gender discrimination in South Asia is a well-documented fact. However, gender is only one of an individual's many … identities. This paper investigates how gender discrimination depends on the social identities of interacting parties. We use an … experimental approach to identify gender discrimination by randomly matching 2,836 male and female students pursuing bachelor …
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fulfilling their expectations. Accordingly, the goal of this paper is to identify the factors that influence the satisfaction … of the gender variable on our analysis, as a moderator in such relationships. The usefulness of this type of research for … satisfaction survey studies, this paper is a pioneer in using empirical analysis to study the effects of gender on customer …
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This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their …
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Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the … correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades … and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement …
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Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...
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getting grades increases the probability of high school graduation for boys and girls with compulsory school educated parents …
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substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are …
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