Showing 71 - 80 of 56,799
reliance on gender socialization theory and a focus on straight (i.e., heterosexual) marriage. We extend this work with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042418
, we theorized health behaviors as a product of one's own time and spouses' work time as well as gender expectations. We …) division of a U.S. Fortune 500 firm and from their spouses. We found fast food consumption is affected by men's work hours … work-family expectations shape time allocations in ways that promote men's and constrain women's health behaviors. They …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189611
"Closing the gender pay gap begins with awareness and understanding of the state of the gap. This hybrid book that … serves as a resource for both the academic and corporate communities, builds the reader's awareness of the gender pay gap … the gender pay gap provides an excellent foundation in stating facts and inferences; yet, the reader is often left …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212946
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291667
This article describes how gamification in education through the use of digital badges has emerged as a means to motivate and reward student learning. This exploratory, multi-case study looked at the motivations and perceptions of 90 higher education students across four disciplines, regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012048684
how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329046
Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the … correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades … and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584671
Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039317
getting grades increases the probability of high school graduation for boys and girls with compulsory school educated parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273930