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We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...
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, we document substantial gender differences in response to this type of RPF: improvements in motivation and learning are …
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physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their …
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The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
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, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from …
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, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from …
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gender and migration background. We find that the educational attainment of girls and migrants relative to their parents is …
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-sex matches reduce unfairness caused by gender discrimination. …
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I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …
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of gender on children's attitudes and aspirations vary significantly with parental education level, parental attitudes to …We use data from the youth component of the British Household Panel Survey to examine gender differences in educational … education, child's age and the indirect cost of education. Boys are more responsive than girls to positive parental …
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