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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430687
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497975
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437075
disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …-oriented "grind" schools and from Irish-medium schools are less likely to finish a degree and less likely to perform well in college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228165
disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …-oriented "grind" schools and from Irish-medium schools are less likely to finish a degree and less likely to perform well in college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269977
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388336
Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between … gender gap using OLS regression and school fixed-effect models for each grade separately. Our results show that girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502754
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401806
In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males outperform females on the Swedish SAT by the same magnitude. We establish that GPAs capture different attributes and skills compared to SAT scores. Differences in motivation and...
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(sorting students into different types of secondary schools at an early age) on gender gaps in test achievement in a cross …-country difference-in-differences framework. We find strong evidence that early tracking increases gender differences in reading. For … math test scores, we do not find consistent evidence that early tracking contributes to the gender gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515565