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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to school outcomes. The study is based on teacher and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties...
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Public school access or stay-at-home partner : factors mitigating the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on academic parents
Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchikov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801484
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Public school access or stay-at-home partner: factors mitigating the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic parents
Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805383
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Measuring women's economic empowerment : time use data and gender inequality
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Thim, Annelise - 2019
Empowerment, co-ordinated jointly by the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, the Development Centre and Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060837
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Why do we need longitudinal survey data?
Joshi, Heather - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Information from longitudinal surveys transforms snapshots of a given moment into something with a time dimension. It illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger generations. It can track the different pathways of men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573698
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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2014
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger cohort being far more positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398263
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343
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Peer Gender and Schooling: Evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2021
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597585
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Gender differences in further training participation : the role of individuals, households and firms
Burgard, Claudia - 2012
Using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper investigates the determinants of training participation in Germany …, distinguishing between self-initiated and employer-initiated training. Self-initiated training is considered as being a decision … within households rather than purely individual. Therefore, in addition to standard training determinants, information on one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579279
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675522