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The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …
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We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
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leadership performance, precisely estimating the absence of a gender leadership gap. We further show that this result is …
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This paper presents the result of a field experiment on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on pupils' achievement on a mathematical multiple choice test. Our sample consists of 2113 pupils of deprived and high-achieving secondary schools in Germany. Based on a pre-study, we compare the...
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, living with parents, parents’ education and occupational status. Further analyses reveal that gender differences are …We examine gender differences in adolescent gamblers’ deception behavior towards their parents. The analysis is based … univocally more honest than males, and stress the importance of considering gender differences in deception for effective …
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We study whether choice over co-workers matters for performance in gender-diverse teams. We carried out a lab … two dimensions: (1) gender and (2) student preference for that co-worker at baseline. We find that assigning a randomly … effects are heterogeneous across the gender stereotype of the questions and materialize even though the two types of male co …
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We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090716
gender difference was found. …
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lying for a small monetary benefit in these games than men. We test the robustness of this gender difference in a sender …–receiver game with larger stakes. We find no difference in lying by gender. …
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students. While ability alone increases confidence and decreases overconfidence, the interaction effect of feminine gender and … ones, while the positive effect of ability on confidence is smaller for females. That being said, the negative gender gap … quartiles. Also, the positive gender gap in confidence for girls is smaller for well-performing students than underperforming …
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