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, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences …
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evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap. …
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Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we … characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got …
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constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …
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discrepancies and patterns. Moreover, this study differentiates data based on gender, providing insights into gender …-related patterns within higher education. The initial results indicate diverse growth rates among counties, and significant gender …
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In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …
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One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely considered to … have been attained. However, measuring gender parity only through school enrollment is misleading, as girls may lag behind … other two decisions. This contradirectional gender bias is unique to Bangladesh and partly explained by the presence of …
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evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap. …
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We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we find that a mother's participation in the labor force...
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We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …
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