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We study the relationship between locus of control (LoC) and human capital investment decisions in the adolescence, using PDS lasso to exploit high-dimensional data. While LoC is not significantly associated with graduation from high school once we use exogenous controls, it correlates strongly...
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keen to observe subjective returns to education for different social identity groups, such as gender, religion, and caste …
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differential along gender, socioeconomic and geographical dimensions in India. We have found a salient differential in the … attainment of higher education across gender subgroups, social groups and also across the quintiles of economic variables. We … history of India. These analyses show that while gender based differential is fast declining over time, the social group based …
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Despite widespread belief that majoring in science in high school has a greater payoff in the Indian labor market than majoring in business/humanities, there is no hard evidence to substantiate this thought. Here I provide the first evidence of the causal effect of majoring in science on...
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India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … increase in the biased attitude of the math teacher increases the female disadvantage in math performance by 0.07 standard … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …
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the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a … students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … deviation increase in biased attitude of the math teacher widens the female disadvantage in math performance by 0.07 standard …
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India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … increase in the biased attitude of the math teacher increases the female disadvantage in math performance by 0.07 standard … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …
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the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a … students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … deviation increase in biased attitude of the math teacher widens the female disadvantage in math performance by 0.07 standard …
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India. We measure teacher s bias through an index capturing teacher s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … increase in the biased attitude of the math teacher increases the female disadvantage in math performance by 0.07 standard … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls attitude …
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India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … increase in the biased attitude of the math teacher increases the female disadvantage in math performance by 0.07 standard … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls' attitude …
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