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Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
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While education levels of women have increased dramatically relative to men, women are still greatly underrepresented … to decompose the sources of the gender gap in STEM. We find that, of the 22 percentage points raw gap, about 13 … points of the gender gap. Additionally, differences in overall achievement between girls and boys have a negligible effect …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497975
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and … evidence for the role of various factors in affecting educational achievement by gender. Gender differences in non … concludes by evaluating what factors are most responsible for the two central gender gaps, whether there is a role for policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437075
, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an … institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints …
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happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … females are more likely to enter the education and health sectors while males are more likely to enter the more lucrative … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
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