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Gender pay gaps are commonly studied in populations with already completed educational careers. We focus on an earlier … stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … cohorts of a large-scale student survey from Germany, we use regression and wage decomposition techniques to describe gender …
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returns to education in Sudan. Our results confirm two stylized facts: first, the incidence of significant gender gap in …This paper examines the gender gap in education and investigates the related implications on the labour market and … education in Sudan and second, the incidence of gender inequalities and gap in skill level, share of women in economic …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … peer environment has lasting effects on occupational sorting and the gender wage gap …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863367
better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …
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It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …
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This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … development reported by parents and teachers is linked to each child's results on a national, standardized achievement test. We …
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. This article documents the magnitude of the gender gap in this area, reviews the hypotheses that, according to the academic … literature, might explain the gender gap and quantifies the contribution of each hypothesis in the case of Spain. The findings … suggest that a significant gender gap in financial literacy remains when considering the differences between men and women in …
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