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Adams and Eves: the gender gap in economics majors
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021
We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with...
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Gender grading bias in junior high school mathematics
Berg, Petter; Palmgren, Ola; Tyrefors, Björn - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 11, pp. 915-919
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Adams and Eves : high school math and the gender gap in Economics majors
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - In: Economic inquiry 61 (2023) 4, pp. 798-817
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Gender wage gap and its effect on test scores of immigrant students
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
incidence of lateness and skipping school compared with boys, which in turn improves girls' test scores in mathematics, science … wage gap results in a 0.20%, 0.13% or 0.06% increase in test scores for mathematics, science, and reading, respectively. …
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The gender gap in mathematics achievement : evidence from Italian data
Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Mendolia, Silvia; Contini, Dalit - 2016
Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper …
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Born in the family : preferences for boys and the gender gap in math
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2019
We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …
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The heterogeneous effect of affirmative action on performance
Bracha, Anat; Cohen, Alma; Conell-Price, Lynn - 2018
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Born in the family : preferences for boys and the gender gap in math
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2019
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Stereotypes, underconfidence and decision-making with an application to gender and math
Jouini, Elyès; Karehnke, Paul; Napp, Clotilde - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 148 (2018), pp. 34-45
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Culture, gender, and math : a revisitation
Anghel, Brindusa; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Sanz de … - 2019
Using five waves of PISA data spanning the period 2003-2015 and exploiting variation both across- and within-countries, we find that the positive association between the female-male gender gap in math test scores (which on average favors boys) and alternative measures of gender equality vanishes...
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