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Closing the gender STEM gap : a large-scale randomize-controlled trial in elementary schools
Grosch, Kerstin; Haeckl, Simone; Kocher, Martin - 2022
We examine individual-level determinants of interest in STEM and analyze whether a digital web application for … elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … light on the mechanisms. We confirm the hypothesis that girls demonstrate a lower overall interest in STEM than boys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358956
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Closing the gender STEM gap : a large-scale randomized-controlled trial in elementary schools
Grosch, Kerstin; Haeckl, Simone; Kocher, Martin - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013350359
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014329721
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Closing the Gender Stem Gap - a Large-Scale Randomized-Controlled Trial in Elementary Schools
Grosch, Kerstin; Haeckl, Simone; Kocher, Martin - 2022
We examine individual-level determinants of interest in STEM and analyze whether a digital web application for … elementary-school children can increase children’s interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … light on the mechanisms. We confirm the hypothesis that girls demonstrate a lower overall interest in STEM than boys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077328
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355
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Do Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from French High Schools
Breda, Thomas; Grenet, Julien; Monnet, Marion; Van … - 2020
the first evidence of the positive impact of external female role models on student enrollment in STEM fields. We show … that the interventions increased the share of Grade 12 girls enrolling in selective (male-dominated) STEM programs in … effectiveness of this type of intervention than the ability of role models to convey a positive and more inclusive image of STEM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207844
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Do female role models reduce the gender gap in science? : evidence from French high schools
Breda, Thomas; Grenet, Julien; Monnet, Marion; … - 2020
the first evidence of the positive impact of external female role models on student enrollment in STEM fields. We show … that the interventions increased the share of Grade 12 girls enrolling in selective (male-dominated) STEM programs in … effectiveness of this type of intervention than the ability of role models to convey a positive and more inclusive image of STEM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202992
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Public officials' treatment of minority clients
Adman, Per; Taghizadeh, Jonas Larsson - 2020
The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of discrimination based on ethnicity in public officials' treatment of welfare clients. Previous research has confirmed the existence of ethnic discrimination, but we argue that further investigations are needed. Field experiments in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285082
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Can grit be taught? : lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students
Santos, Indhira; Petroska-Beska, Violeta; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2022
We study whether a particular socio-emotional skill - grit (the ability to sustain effort and interest towards long-term goals) - can be cultivated through a large-scale program, and how this affects student learning. Using a randomized control trial, we evaluate the first nationwide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013407551
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476554