Sökning: "college and gender"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden college and gender.

  1. 1. Education, skills and gender : The impact of a grading reform and the business cycle on labor market outcomes

    Författare :Charlotta Boström; Anne Boschini; Helena Svaleryd; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; labor market; recessions; gender; ability; earnings; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in economics, all concerned with different aspects of education and labor market outcomes. The abstracts of the three studies are as follows.A flight of hurdles? Effects on graduation and long-term labor market outcomes of a nationwide grading reform. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Is College Science Teaching Women's Work? : Gender Inequity in the Physical Sciences

    Författare :Katherine Doerr; Catherine Riegle-Crumb; USA The University of Texas at Austin; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender; work; teaching; science; Naturvetenskapernas didaktik; Science education;

    Sammanfattning : After decades of virtual exclusion from participation in STEM, women have majored in, earned graduate degrees in, and forged careers in male-dominated fields such as the physical sciences in increasing numbers. At each step of the way, however, women’s participation diminishes, and this is especially apparent in the workforce. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Patterns of care and support in old age

    Författare :Sigurveig Sigurdardottir; Gerdt Sundström; Bo Malmberg; Marie Ernsth Bravell; Kåreholt Ingemar; Svein Olav Daatland; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This study describes the situation for community living older people, 65 years of age and older in Iceland, analyzing their needs for care and services and how these needs are met. The study analyzes the relationship between the main providers of help and care, the formal caregivers and the informal carers. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Microeconometric Analyses of Individual Behavior in Public Welfare Systems : Applications in Health and Education Economics

    Författare :Daniel Avdic; Per Johansson; Johan Vikström; Colin Cameron; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; causal effect; public policy; health behavior; gender norms; learning-by-doing; health care access; time-to-graduation; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay 1: Women have more absenteeism while simultaneously live longer than men. This pattern suggests that men and women's preferences for sickness absence might differ due to e.g. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Game-based learning for virtual patients in Second Life®

    Författare :Maria Toro-Troconis; Jan Gulliksen; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Genus och teknik; Gender and Technology;

    Sammanfattning : In the field of medicine, various representative simulations have been developed to support the decreasing number of learning opportunities with real patients; the use of virtual patients is among them. Virtual patients are real-life clinical scenarios used for the purpose of medical education. LÄS MER