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Adams and Eves : the gender gap in economics majors

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …

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A simple nudge increases socioeconomic diversity in undergraduate economics

Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2021

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Bartolini, Stefano; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and …-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …

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Teaching "out of field" in STEM subjects in Australia : evidence from PISA 2015

Shah, Chandra; Richardson, Paul W.; Watt, Helen M. G. - 2020

. Motivating students to learn STEM subjects is however a challenge. Teachers have a critical role in motivating students but to do … roles through the effects of other factors, such as school sector and education level of parents of students in the school …

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Teaching "out of field" in STEM subjects in Australia : evidence from PISA 2015

Shah, Chandra; Richardson, Paul W.; Watt, Helen M. G. - 2020

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Coronagraben in Switzerland : culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19

Deopa, Neha; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021

Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19 but the actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland between February and December 2020. We find that...

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Family social norms and child labor

Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021

Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...

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War and social attitudes

Child, Travers Barclay; Nikolova, Elena - 2018

We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on selfreported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate...

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Human values and selection into supervisory positions : evidence from nine European countries

Hazans, Mihails; Masso, Jaan; Maurseth, Per Botolf - 2023

Do employees with supervisory responsibilities differ from other workers in terms of human values, especially those potentially affecting the quality and efficiency of supervision? This paper uses data from rounds 7-9 of the European Social Survey to examine the selection of employees into...

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The morality of markets : a comment

Ponthiere, Gregory; Stevens, Nicolas - 2024

Dewatripont and Tirole (2024) defend the morality of markets on the ground of an irrelevance result: the social production of moral actions is independent from competitive pressure on markets. No matter how strong competitive pressure is, markets perform well in diffusing signals about moral...

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