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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?

Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017

We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world. Using data from a three-wave household panel survey conducted in 2007, 2009, and 2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls'...

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Gender differences in applying for STEM programs in higher education : evidence from a policy shift in Hungary

Declercq, Koen; Ghysels, Joris; Varga, Júlia - 2018

We study how admission policies in higher education affect enrollment decisions of men and women and the decision to apply to STEM programs. More specifically, we investigate how an increase in the relative acceptance probability for STEM programs affects these decisions. We apply our analysis...

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Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

men and women defined by gender, second, positive and significant rate of return to education and correlations between … explaining differences defined by gender and second for industrial firms and explaining differences defined by firm size and …

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Family Background, Family Income, Cognitive Tests Scores, Behavioural Scales and their Relationship with Post-secondary Education Participation: Evidence from the NLSCY

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

This paper exploits the panel feature of the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and the large diversity of measures collected on the children ad their families over 6 cycles (1994-1995 to 2004-2005) to explain high school graduation and postsecondary education...

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"Women, Schooling, and Marriage in Rural Philippines"

DeSilva, Sanjaya; Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehrab Bin - Levy Economics Institute - 2011

Using data from the Bicol region of the Philippines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...

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Gender Differences in the Response to Competition

Price, Joseph - 2011

To investigate whether men and women respond differently to competition and whether this response depends on the gender … women did differ greatly depending on the gender mix of their peers, with a more positive response when a larger fraction of … an inherent trade-off between increasing aggregate outcomes through the use of competition and achieving gender equity …

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Mathematics and Gender : Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences

Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2014

We exploit an institutional reduction in the costs of acquiring advanced high school Mathematics to assess the causes and consequences of fewer girls choosing advanced Mathematics. Girls at the top and boys at the middle of the Mathematics-ability-distribution took more Mathematics because of...

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Peer Gender and Schooling : Evidence from Ethiopia

Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2022

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects …

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Transitory earnings opportunities and educational scarring of men

Jósef Sigurdsson - 2023

can be reconciled by gender differences in nonpecuniary costs of school attendance, myopia, or perceived returns to … education. The findings suggest that due to these gender differences, economic booms misallocate young men away from school …, entrenching the gender gap in education. …

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Transitory earnings opportunities and educational scarring of men

Jósef Sigurdsson - 2023

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