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Do girls really outperform boys in educational outcomes?
Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2014
The reversing achievement gap across genders observed in many countries has led to a heated debate on the persistent gap in academia and other top fields. Using Turkish administrative data and the particular institutional characteristics, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490388
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Scientifico! like dad : on the intergenerational transmission of STEM education in Italy
Chise, Diana; Fort, Margherita; Monfardini, Chiara - 2019 - This version: October 11, 2019
sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120606
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Scientifico! like dad : on the intergenerational transmission of STEM education in Italy
Chise, Diana; Fort, Margherita; Monfardini, Chiara - 2019
sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126090
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Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence : Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce it?
Demirel, Merve - 2020
parents' educational attainment with their offspring's. Daughters exhibit more intergenerational persistence than sons. We … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831215
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Gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence: can compulsory schooling reduce it?
Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2020
parents' educational attainment with their offspring's. Daughters exhibit more intergenerational persistence than sons. We … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238009
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Better off on their own? : how peer effects determine international patterns of the mathematics gender achievement gap
Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2020 - This Version: November 2020
This paper applies recent spatial regression techniques in peer effects estimation to a sample of 33 countries in the IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education production function setting and controlling for the...
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(How) do non-cognitive skills programs improve adolescent school achievement? : experimental evidence
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....
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Gender grading bias in junior high school mathematics
Berg, Petter; Palmgren, Ola; Tyrefors, Björn - 2019
Admission to high school in Sweden is based on the final grades from junior high. This paper compares students' final mathematics grade with new data from a high school introductory test score in mathematics. Both the grades and the test are based on the same syllabus, but teachers enjoy great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967371
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Motivating low-achievers : relative performance feedback in primary schools
Hermes, Henning; Huschens, Martin; Rothlauf, Franz; … - 2020
performance improvements. With a sample of 400 children, we conduct a class-wise randomized-controlled trial using an e-learning … motivation, effort, and performance in math for low-achieving children, without hurting high-achieving children. Among low …, we document substantial gender differences in response to this type of RPF: improvements in motivation and learning are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424267
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
achievement across and within countries. Chapter 3 hereby employs novel machine-learning methods to derive intertemporal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355