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incidence of lateness and skipping school compared with boys, which in turn improves girls' test scores in mathematics, science … wage gap results in a 0.20%, 0.13% or 0.06% increase in test scores for mathematics, science, and reading, respectively. …
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from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate …
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negative impact on performance in mathematics and that social emotional skills can help students deal with bullying. Several …
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This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2007 colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. The purpose of the colloquium was to clarify the uses of the concepts of game theory, and to identify promising new directions....
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In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …
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In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …
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' performance in mathematics (-0.19 standard deviations). Among children of low-educated parents, the learning loss was larger for …
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We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with...
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The well-known subprime mortgage crisis, which began to manifest in early 2007, since when the effects of the speculative bubble begin to become evident from the increase in default rates in residential mortgages, has triggered a global crisis that has pushed various legislations over time to...
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Mathematics plays a vital role in many areas of finance and provides the theories and tools that have been widely used …
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