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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014978
the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls.Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016191
the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133721
This paper investigates whether parents’ inherent gender bias is associated with intrahousehold human capital … investment among boys and girls. We conduct an artifactual field experiment to identify parents’ inherent gender bias and then …. We focus on five indicators for education, viz., years of schooling, grade for age, enrolment status, education …
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This study presents the results of a randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of a shared-book reading (SBR) intervention that targeted children aged 4 living in socially mixed neighborhoods of the city of Paris. We selected a large, random sample of families and provided parents with...
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a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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