Sökning: "Math Gender Gap"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Math Gender Gap.
1. Reaching For Equality : Essays in Education and Gender Economics
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained papers that all relate to the understanding of equality. The first chapter investigates the effects of preschool attendance on children in Kenya and Tanzania. LÄS MER
2. The effects of markets, managers and peers on worker outcomes
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: This essay exploits the entry of private independent high schools in Sweden to examine how local school competition affects the wages and the mobility of teachers in a market with individual wage bargaining. Using rich matched employer-employee panel data covering all high school teachers over a period of 16 years, I show that the entry of private schools is associated with higher teacher salaries, including higher salaries for teachers in public schools. LÄS MER
3. Incentives and Inequalities in Family and Working Life
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Same-gender teachers may affect educational preferences by acting as role models for their students. I study the importance of the gender composition of teachers in math and science during lower secondary school on the likelihood to continue in math-intensive tracks in the next levels of education. LÄS MER
4. Teachers, Family and Friends : Essays in Economics of Education
Sammanfattning : Family background and school performance during a turbulent era of school reforms In the 1990s, Swedish education policy took several steps towards more decentralization and more room for parental school choice. We study the relationship between school performance and family background during this period of time. LÄS MER