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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
compliers were significantly more likely to persist into the second year of postsecondary schooling. We find no effect of being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538654
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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
compliers were significantly more likely to persist into the second year of postsecondary schooling. We find no effect of being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476579
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Family background, gender and cohort effects on schooling decisions
Valbuena, Javier - 2011
associated to maternal education. -- Educational attainment ; Schooling ; Early school leaving ; Education transmission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151667
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Do educational attainments influence attitudes toward gender equality in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Kyoore, Jude E.; Sulemana, Iddisah - In: Forum for social economics 48 (2019) 4, pp. 311-333
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176778
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Attainment and gender equality in higher education : evidence from a large scale expansion
Caner, Asena; Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2019
We examine the dramatic expansion in the Turkish higher education system during 2006-2008, which resulted in the establishment of 41 new public universities and a 60% increase in the number of available slots. Using the variation in the exposure intensity of expansion across cohorts and regions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127253
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Gender differentials in maths test scores in MENA countries
Badr, Menshawy; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2012
This paper investigates gender inequality of academic achievement using mean and quantile decomposition analysis in eight selected MENA countries. We use data from TIMSS 2007 to decompose the test scores gap between boys and girls at the eighth grade. There is a mixed picture of gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009614352
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The Most (and Least) Representative Law Schools for Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Manhire, Jack - 2017
To what extent do U.S. law school demographics concerning gender, race, and ethnicity reflect the same demographics of their applicant populations? This is a preview (highlighting law school rankings) of a forthcoming paper that attempts to answer the question by developing a measurement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130576
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Vouchers, School Choice and the Access to Higher Education
Contreras, Dante - 2002
For over twenty years, a voucher system has been used in Chile to promote competition in the educational system between public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but the apparent impact is relatively small....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369224
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Reconstructing school segregation : on the efficacy and equity of single-sex schooling
Billger, Sherrilyn M. (contributor) - 2006
A change to Title IX has spurred new single-sex public schooling in the US. Until recently, nearly all gender …-sex schooling is not universally superior in supporting gender equity, as coeducational public schools yield the least segregated … persistently for men of median ability. Much of the benefit from single-sex schooling accrues to students already likely to succeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301656
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309044