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Gender gap dynamics among refugees and recent immigrants : different start, similar patterns?

Kosyakova, Yuliya; Salikutluk, Zerrin - 2023

literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany … include recently arrived refugees (the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees) and other immigrants (the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample …) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results …

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An estimation of worker and firm effects with censored data

González de San Román, Ainara; Rebollo-Sanz, Yolanda F. - 2014

In this paper, the authors develop a new estimation method that is suitable for censored models with two high-dimensional fixed effects and that is based on a sequence of least squares regressions, yielding significant savings in computing time and hence making it applicable to frameworks in...

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Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2015

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 on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal...

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Gender Gaps in Different Grading Systems

Angelo, Catarina - 2018

This paper analyses the impact of grading practices on the gender gap in student achievement. We examine the gender difference in the difference between teacher grading and scores on national exams to test whether there are gender differences associated with different grading systems. We use...

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Explaining gender gap variation across assessment forms

Graetz, Georg; Karimi, Arizo - 2019

In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males outperform females on the Swedish SAT by the same magnitude. We establish that GPAs capture different attributes and skills compared to SAT scores. Differences in motivation and...

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Gender gaps in different assessment systems : The role of teacher gender

Angelo, Catarina; Reis, Ana Balcão - 2022

Previous research has identified a gender gap in the difference between teacher grading andscores on national exams at the end of secondary school. We go a step further and look at howteacher characteristics may influence this gender gap. We find that exams are relatively morefavorable for boys,...

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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. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...

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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...

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An examination of poverty and sexual orientation in the UK

Uhrig, S. C. Noah - 2014

Is there a link between sexuality and poverty? If so, has this relationship changed over time? What anti-poverty policies might be relevant to address issues related to sexuality and poverty? The report synthesises literature and adds top-line findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study....

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