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The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...

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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative …

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L.; Sosa, Cardona; Marcela, Lina; Nolen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …

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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind

Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …

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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …

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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...

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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

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