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Does secular education impact religiosity, electoral participation and the propensity to vote for Islamic parties? : evidence from an education reform in a Muslim country
Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - 2014
secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …'s propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their …
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Does Market Liberalisation Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986—1998
Jolliffe, Dean; Campos, Nauro F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this accomplishment? The theoretical literature and attendant empirical evidence are inconclusive. Using data for 2.9 million wage earners in Hungary we find that the male-female difference...
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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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It's not just for boys! : understanding gender differences in STEM
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public …
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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood
Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - 2016
United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on …
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Ask and you shall receive? : gender differences in regrades in college
Li, Cher Hsuehhsiang; Zafar, Basit - 2020
Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the...
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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters
Qian, Nancy - 2017
I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...
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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517894
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Cambios en la diferenciación de los ingresos de la población del Gran Córdoba entre 1992 y 2000 según el género y nivel de escolaridad
Gertel, Héctor; Giuliodori, Roberto; Rodríguez, Alejandro - In: Revista de Economía y Estadística XLII (2004) 1, pp. 115-139
El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar la contribución de la diferenciación por años de educación y por género en la determinación de la desigualdad en la distribución personal del ingreso. La perspectiva adoptada se apoya, por un lado, en el cálculo de la distancia económica, o...
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Gender based intra-household inequality of opportunity in academic skills among Indian children
Singh, Ashish - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2333-2346
households on the education of their children, which shows that the educational expenditure on female children is substantially …
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