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living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test … that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on … (as opposed to math-specific) gender stereotypes on the math gender gap, and suggest that parents' gender social norms …
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This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the … epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living … gender equality in the parents' country of ancestry. We find that the higher the degree of gender equality in the country of …
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Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for … the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … potential endogeneity of our gender norms measure with an index of the degree of reproductive health liberalization when …
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the degree of gender convergence in financial knowledge in the country of ancestry, the higher the financial knowledge of … women in the US relative to their male counterparts. After ruling out gender differences in cognitive and non … with greater financial knowledge for men but not for women in the US. Once we remove any country-of-ancestry gender …
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variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men …
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Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college...
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This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
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Using an unbalanced panel of close to 12,000 academic records, and difference-in-differences models and event study analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to...
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This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...
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We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
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