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Baldazzi, Elisa; Biroli, Pietro; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2025

Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational setting, where it can shape students' confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative...

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Structural Change, Gender Gaps, and Educational Choice

Reimers, Paul - 2021

, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work … can reconcile the common decline of both gender gaps …

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Seeing stereotypes

Baldazzi, Elisa; Biroli, Pietro; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2025

Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational settings, where it can shape students’ confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative...

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The Gender Pay Gap Beyond Human Capital : Heterogeneity in Noncognitive Skills and in Labor Market Tastes

Grove, Wayne A. - 2014

Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of … preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those two sources of gender heterogeneity account for a quarter of the "explained …

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Gender differences in risk aversion and patience : evidence from a representative survey

Horn, Daniel; Kiss, Hubert Janos - 2019

remains significant at conventional levels. We carry out the same exercise for patience and document no significant gender …

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Gender differences in risk aversion and patience : evidence from a representative survey

Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János - 2019

remains significant at conventional levels. We carry out the same exercise for patience and document no significant gender …

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Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the … the differences in ambiguity. -- Gender ; risk aversion ; ambiguity aversion …

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital : Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital : Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2018

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to signiﬁcant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline. We estimate the determinants of parents' material and time...

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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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