Math and Gender: Is Math a Route to a High-Powered Career?
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- Juanna Schrøter Joensen & Helena Skyt Nielsen, 2013. "Math and Gender: Is Math a Route to a High-Powered Career?," Economics Working Papers 2013-01, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
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math; instrumental variable; gender; career choice; high school curriculum;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2013-02-16 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2013-02-16 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2013-02-16 (Labour Economics)
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