Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement
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- Nicole M. Fortin & Philip Oreopoulos & Shelley Phipps, 2013. "Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement," NBER Working Papers 19331, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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