growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion …

curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large … are strong and consistent predictors of income, occupation, completed level of education and field of study. The … that of the other traits. Gender differences in competitiveness can explain 5-10 percent of the observed gender differences …

This paper explores the contribution of biological factors in explaining gender differences in educational performance … traditional gender norms can explain this finding, implying that our results are not just driven by biology but materialize …

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …