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This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2012 data from an online annual performance reporting system for tenured and tenure‐track faculty at two campuses of a large public, Midwestern university as well as 2014 data from a large...
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We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students … graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry departments. We find that students with an advisor of the same gender tend to …-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same-gender …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296833
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723522
Different lines of research have argued that specific groups, such as boys or ethnic minorities, are more prone to develop an anti-school culture than others, leading to group differences in the social acceptance of high performers. Taking an ecological view, we ask to what extent the school...
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the gender of the student. The identification strategy is based on quasi-random variation in the exposure to HP peers … particular with peers of the same gender. Moreover, there is evidence that the exposure to HP males can be even negative …
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This paper demonstrates that short-term peer exposure can generate achievement effects which persist for several months and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students to freshmen teams. I find that the freshmen week...
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