The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education: Exploring its Consequences for Partnering, Employment and Voting Behaviour
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Keywords
gender gap in education; partnership; employment; political opinion;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2024-12-16 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2024-12-16 (Macroeconomics)
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