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In almost all developed countries there has been substantial growth in university education over the last half-century. This growth has raised concerns that the benefits of university education are declining and that university education is not appropriate for students who, without the...
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addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men …. An investigation of adult outcomes for another recent cohort from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …
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affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …
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