Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted …, economics had become professionalised into a self-contained discipline expressed in mathematical language and making little … effort to communicate with the general reader. The current paper looks at this anti-literary trend in economics and considers …

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 the mathematical content of high school curricula as the key …

We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates 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 the mathematical con- tent of high school curricula as the key …

scant. We evaluate a national teacher development program in Sweden - the 'Boost for Mathematics' - containing core elements …' mathematics performance. The positive effect on student performance persists also long after the intervention has ended. In …

from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate …

inquiry with an individualized scaffolding approach to teach Mathematics to preschoolers in Peru. Our results suggest that the … program improves overall Mathematics outcomes, and that it has stronger impact on students in the lower quintiles of the … Mathematics outcomes distribution and on students whose teachers have university degrees. The effect on the content areas where …

mathematics grade with new data from a high school introductory test score in mathematics. Both the grades and the test are based …