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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women
Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011
have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …
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Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is …
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Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap
Lundberg, Shelly - 2017
increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …
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The Timing of Puberty and Gender Differences in Educational Achievement
Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017
In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...
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Ursache für Frauenmangel in MINT-Berufen? Mädchen unterschätzen schon in der fünften Klasse ihre Fähigkeiten in Mathematik
Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 45, pp. 1009-1014
Frauen sind an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen in den sogenannten MINT-Fächern (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft, Technik) stark unterrepräsentiert. Der vorliegende Bericht geht der Frage nach, inwiefern eine der Ursachen schon im Grundschulalter zu suchen ist. Auf Basis eines für...
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Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school? Evidence from administrative panel data
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the 'feminization' of elementary school teaching is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776713
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Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786989
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Education Effects on Days Hospitalized and Days out of Work by Gender: Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim - 2017
The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …
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Educational Gender Gaps
Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates …
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Social mobility in China: A case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South
Li, Yaojun - 2020
This study analyses intergenerational class mobility in China as a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South. Drawing on national representative surveys collected between 2010 and 2015 in China, the analysis focuses on absolute and...
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