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965 students enrolled in a one-semester Keys course, we discover no gender gap at the overall pretest level. We find …, however, a significant gender gap favoring female students at the overall posttest level, a result that is also consistent …
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The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has generated a renewed interest in including personal finance in the secondary curriculum in the United States and in many countries around the world. This paper explains the features of a successful and unique high school personal finance curriculum,...
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Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in …
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This study focus on the impact of the schooling massification on the rate of return to schooling in France during the period 1983 to 2002. Moreover, it allows us to make a statement on the advancement of econometric methods that have been developed during the past fifty years. In this way, we...
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' family social, cultural and economic condition, their parents' educational achievement, previous own school story and gender …
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better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …
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We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze …
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