gender differences and examines the role of the high school context for plans to major in STEM fields. Building on recent …Despite the striking reversal of the gender gap in education, women pursue science, technology, engineering, and … gender theories, we argue that widely shared and hegemonic gender beliefs manifest differently across schools so that the …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting … coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can perform … a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting … coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a … difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous years. We …

also briefly discussed, using as parameters the flows of new engineers graduating from top universities as well as the …

This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of … enrollments have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substan- tial regional … differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern region, girls begin to drop out of school around the third grade. Only half …

This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … performance in Swedish, English and Mathematics. School leaving certificates assigned by the teacher is compared with results on … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases …

of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic … background. That is, if the relationship between school leaving certificates and national test results differs between girls and …