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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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The COVID-19 pandemic and school closure: learning loss in mathematics in primary education
Contini, Dalit; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Muratori, Caterina - 2021
' performance in mathematics (-0.19 standard deviations). Among children of low-educated parents, the learning loss was larger for …
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Tackling the gender gap in mathematics with active learning methodologies
Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Contini, Dalit; De Rosa, Dalila; … - 2021
solving. We evaluate the causal effect of the intervention on the gender gap in mathematics in Italy with a randomized …
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Rebuttal of "on nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models"
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one...
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Undergraduate econometrics instruction : through our classes, darkly
Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2017
like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics has since evolved to prioritize the estimation of specific causal effects …
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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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Speaking in numbers : the effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
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Your move : the effect of chess on mathematics test scores
Gumede, Kamilla; Rosholm, Michael - 2015
We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in … mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a …
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Math matters! : the importance of mathematical and verbal skills for degree performance
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both … are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are …
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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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