Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students' Achievement
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- Terrier, Camille, 2015. "Giving a little help to girls? evidence on grade discrimination and its effect on students' achievement," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 61696, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Camille Terrier, 2014. "Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students Achievement," PSE Working Papers hal-01080834, HAL.
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Keywords
Gender; grading; discrimination; progress;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- 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
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2015-04-11 (Education)
- NEP-URE-2015-04-11 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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