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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Japan, lost boys, reversing gender gap
Why are Japanese 15-year-old girls as good at science as teenagers anywhere else in the world?
Figure 1: Percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in sciences by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
01 Jul 2015 5 Comments
in economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Japan, lost boys, reversing gender gap
Figure 1: Percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in mathematics by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
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in economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: black markets, economics of prohibition, entrepreneurial alertness, food, nanny state, police, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Japan, lost boys, reversing gender gap
Figure 1: percentage achieving the proficiency level 5 or higher in reading by gender, USA, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 2012
Source: OECD StatExtract.
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: economics of personality traits, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Figure 1: Percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in humanities and arts qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
Figure 2: percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in computing qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
Figure 3: Percentage of tertiary degrees awarded in engineering, manufacturing and construction qualifications by gender, 2012
Source: OECD Education Database.
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in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, College premium, educational attainment, graduate premium
Figure 1: tertiary educational attainment of adults aged 25 to 34 in Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK and Canada, 2000 and 2011
Source: OECD Factbook.
23 Jun 2015 2 Comments
Academic libs in soc sci and humanities, cons in business and nursing, moderates in engineering and computer sci http://t.co/ixwbWb5M6X—
Whyvert (@whyvert) May 23, 2015
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in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: College premium, economic mobility, education premium, graduate premium
"…most powerful instrument of economic mobility for low-income ppl is 4 yr college degree." nyti.ms/1ji4fTl http://t.co/94xbbJW4Ny—
Equitable Growth (@equitablegrowth) May 15, 2014
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in economics of education, human capital Tags: endogenous growth theory, learning externalities
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in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: educational attainment
Average years of schooling in US over time. Rise slowed in the 1970s. brook.gs/14C4Kmo http://t.co/abs2A8BvAx—
Richard V. Reeves (@RichardvReeves) January 09, 2015
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in economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, rentseeking, unions Tags: employment protection laws
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in economics of education, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: single mothers
There's a clear increase in single-parent households for parents who haven’t gone to college: on.wsj.com/1B1Xeuq http://t.co/eW2fH8bX5O—
Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) May 17, 2015
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in economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: antimarket bias, creative distraction, expressive voting, make-work bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, technological unemployment
Every 20 years we worry about losing jobs to tech. books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c… http://t.co/KW47Iwzsp9—
James Bessen (@JamesBessen) August 10, 2014
17 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium, high school dropouts
http://t.co/t1Pym23Wgv—
EPI Chart Bot (@epichartbot) May 27, 2015
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in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of personality traits, gender gap, PISA, reversing gender gap
Boys’ dominance just about endures in maths: at age 15 they are, on average, the equivalent of three months’ schooling ahead of girls. In science the results are fairly even.
But in reading, where girls have been ahead for some time, a gulf has appeared. In all 64 countries and economies in the study, girls outperform boys. The average gap is equivalent to an extra year of schooling.
Figure 1: : Gender differences (boys – girls) in student performance in reading, mathematics and science in PISA 2012
Source: OECD family database.
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