Burgess, Simon; McConnell, Brendon; Propper, Carol; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003
The aim of this paper is to examine gender related differences in performance at age 16. We investigate a number of possible explanations for the underachievement of boys relative to girls, the so-called ‘gender gap’. We employ a national dataset of the matched exam results of the entire...