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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"gender composition"”.
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Gender tipping: The effects of a changing student gender composition on new faculty salaries
… educational policies designed to promote gender equity. First, that the external labor market is the principal predictor of disciplinary salaries when all other factors are controlled, and second, that integration of women into these marketable disciplines will result in pay equity. This …
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The impact of the transition economy on gender composition in employment in the Russian heavy industry
… and economic dimensions that impact on the gender composition of employment in the Russian coal industry. It will also explain continuity and changes in gender composition during a period of transition, which has implications for both female and male employment in the `Ruscoal' Mining …
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Essays in Empirical Labor Economics and the Economics of Gender (Computer -Use, Workgroup's Gender Composition and Motherhood)
Studies in developed countries regularly observe a wage penalty for working mothers. The third chapter explores the effects of motherhood on wages and labor force participation for four Latin American countries. Conversely from the evidence found in the developed countries, Latin American results …
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An analysis of the gender composition of the consumer economics major over time: a case study of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… only a small portion of the decline, and gender composition of transfers into or out of the major is not the source either. We also found that the merger played a significant role in the decline in the share of female CE majors at the University, as well as the 1997 change of the major …
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Sons, daughters, and arab-american family dynamics: does a child's gender matter?
… ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY DYNAMICS: DOES A CHILD'S GENDER MATTER?</p> <p>by</p> <p>SANAA ALHARAHSHEH</p> <p>December 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Mary Sengstock</p> <p>Major: Sociology</p> <p>Degree:Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>Gender differences exist in families in all societies and cultures, but …
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Using question-specific vocabularies to support speech data collection with SALAAM
… on recognition accuracy, ii) What impact does gender composition of the training data set have on recognition accuracy and iii) What impact do varied alternative pronunciations per word type have on recognition accuracy. Data for the target languages was collected from 104 university student …
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The Effects of Teachers' Flow Experiences on the Cognitive Engagement of Students
… time-of-day, instructional method, and the gender composition of the class and instructor? Findings from this study suggest that a strong statistical relationship exists between teachers' flow experiences and the cognitive engagement of their students. Specifically, when teachers were …
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The effect of technology-based lessons on primary school students working in mixed and single-gender groupings
… school students working in mixed and single- gender groupings around a computer during technology-based lessons. In particular it observed the patterns of peer interaction that took place when students worked co-operatively in groups in lessons. In so doing, this study attempted to explain the …
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Three essays in experimental and labor economics
… an empirical application aiming at studying gender discrimination in a research context, and in particular whether the gender composition of evaluating commissions affects the hiring of women in research activities.
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The Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate Schooling
I investigate the nexus of gender, student ability, and post-baccalaureate (PB) program quality. This is the first general empirical study of graduate and professional educational investment to consider inter-field differences in quality and gender composition. A primary goal of this dissertation …
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Model-based Analysis of Diversity in Higher Education
… education pipeline with a focus on the system's gender composition from k-12 to graduate school. We use a system dynamics approach to present a systems view of the mechanisms that affect the dynamics of higher education, replicate historical enrollment data, and forecast future trends of higher …
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A comparison of retention rates of adolescent males in all-male and mixed gender beginning choral ensembles
… the beginning choral experience should also be gender-based. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescent male retention rates and gender composition of sixth grade choral ensembles (mixed gender vs. all-male). Subjects included middle school choral directors (n = …
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IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND STRUCTURES ON STUDENTS’ FUTURE OUTCOMES
… The second chapter explores the effects of peer gender composition on students’ academic performance, leveraging near-random variation in tutorial group gender ratios created by a tutorial balloting system. Results show positive impacts of a higher proportion of female peers on both genders, with …
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Why women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in the United States
… of research: (1) STEM fields are riddled with gender stereotypes, which make many women uncomfortable and feel like they do not belong; (2) a gender confidence gap exists in STEM fields and discourages women from entering or further pursing STEM. An examination of gender composition of STEM …
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Neurophysiological evaluation of sensory gating and selective attention in schizotypal personality
… (Raine, 1991). Groups were matched for age, gender composition, handedness and education. Results failed to reveal group differences in suppression of the P50 in the sensory gating task, suggesting that preattentive gating is not disturbed. In contrast, on the selective attention task, …
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Training a non-match response: Toward a technology for determining controlling stimulus dimensions for two children with autism.
… and attitudes toward harassment by examining the gender composition of the harassment dyad and the organizational status of the perpetrator in relation to the victim. Archival data from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan was used to …
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Sexual harassment: Do gender and organizational status of harasser really matter?
… and attitudes toward harassment by examining the gender composition of the harassment dyad and the organizational status of the perpetrator in relation to the victim. Archival data from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan was used to …
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A study on the effects of peer review in knowledge production
… author prominence & institutional affiliation, gender composition of the authors, duration of manuscript review and quality of the manuscripts & ERSA's editorial process.
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