selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

National Insurance Institute. The Paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

pay into full-time employment. A significant part also arises because work experience and education are found to be …-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. …

bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising increases men … not driven by gender identification with the candidate, ideology, or other voter’s observable attributes. Effective … strategies of persuasive communication should thus take gender into account. Our results may also help to reconcile the …

's characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP …). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential …

facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not associated with marital status; nor do they stem … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We …