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Relative income, the breadwinner norm, and mental health in couples
Getik, Demid - 2022
The share of couples where the wife out-earns the husband is increasing in many countries. In this paper, I investigate how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental health is positively associated with own and spousal...
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Peer gender and mental health
Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2020
Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects mental health. We use Swedish administrative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309783
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399683
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403509
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491348
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255550
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … which positive and negative performance feedback is provided, matters for study motivation and to some extent also exam … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental … education does not matter. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316309
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students' educational performance, who are challenged by parental … education does not matter. The relationships though dealing with a gender-specific issue do not exhibit gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318731
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Gender-Based Favoritism in Blood Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - 2019
This paper provides the first evidence of the existence of gender-based favoritism in life saving decisions to donate blood. We conduct a field experiment among blood donors from Bosnia and Herzegovina where we exogenously manipulate the signal of a blood recipient’s gender by adding his/her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105958