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Education level and mating success : undercover on Tinder
Neyt, Brecht; Vandebulcke, Sarah; Baert, Stijn - 2018
In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success by means of a field experiment on the mobile dating app Tinder, using a sample of 3,600 profile evaluations. In line with previous studies from the field of evolutionary psychology, our results...
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The influence of personality traits on university performance : evidence from Italian freshmen students
Corazzini, Luca; D'Arrigo, Silvia; Millemaci, Emanuele; … - 2020
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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2014
Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of their children. Interventions that...
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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536082
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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family
Wiswall, Matthew - 2017
. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968273
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Exam scheduling and student performance
Di Pietro, Giorgio - In: Bulletin of economic research 65 (2013) 1, pp. 65-81
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Gender bias and statistical discrimination against female instructors in student evaluations of teaching
Keng, Shao-Hsun - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 66 (2020)
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Factors that affect students' performance in science : an application using Gini-BMA methodology in PISA 2015 dataset
Dimiski, Anastasia - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 13 (2021) 2, pp. 157-211
Existing theoretical and empirical evidence on the determinants of students’ performance reveals a direct link between … the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), the present study analyses the associations between students …-primary education is a robust determinant with a negative impact on students’ performance in science. This result is confirmed both …
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Attendance and exam performance : evidence from graduate economics students in India
Nilakantan, Rahul - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 19 (2020) 10, pp. 1235-1242
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