10 Male “Privileges”

10 Dec 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: ,

2015 PISA reverse gender gap in reading, USA, UK, Japan, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

07 Dec 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: , ,

This reading gap is the equal if 6-12 months extra school.for girls.

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SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015 Reading, Mathematics and Science Assessment.

Gender commuting gap for workers who travel to and from home to work

04 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: ,

I lived in Japan so that 60% extra time the Japanese men spend travelling to and from work in those cramped trains is not to be underrated.

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Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.

The reverse gender gap in clothes prices

29 Dec 2015 Leave a comment

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The reverse gender gap in education is worst at the bottom

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Being an airline pilot or engineer is much more dangerous than I thought it was

02 Aug 2015 2 Comments

by Jim Rose in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: , , ,

Equal pay day verses equal occupational fatality day

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by Jim Rose in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics Tags: , ,

HT: Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas.

Are men inferior to women? Let’s check the data

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by Jim Rose in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags:

Lifetime likelihood of imprisonment in the USA

13 Mar 2015 Leave a comment

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The reversing gender gap in education

24 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

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Gender and education: Have American boys been left behind? – Christina Hoff Sommers

10 Jun 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: , , ,

via Gender and education: Have American boys been left behind? – YouTube.

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