Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes: Experimental evidence from Mexico
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- Busso, Matías & Frisancho, Verónica, 2021. "Good Peers Have Asymmetric Gendered Effects on Female Educational Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Mexico," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 11220, Inter-American Development Bank.
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Peer effects; Gender; High achievers; Secondary education; Mexico;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- 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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