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In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers’ gender biases on boys’ and girls’ academic … teachers’ biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender— positive effect on boys’ achievements and negative effect … on girls’. Such gender biases also impact students’ enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …
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decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
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. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …
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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...
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Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may reflect a common change in the relative price of a skill...
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Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …
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A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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opposite directions, resulting in a near-zero total effect which has previously been a measure of gender bias. These results … offer new evidence of sibling rivalry and gender bias in family settings that has not been detected in the literature. …
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each GPA level, we find that gender differences in post-secondary expectations, controlling for school ability, and as …
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