In order to deal with selectivity issues, we use a combination of propensity score weighting techniques and adjusted generalized linear models for estimating the effect of teen parenthood on high school dropout (ATT), for men and women separately. Our best estimates of the effect of teen ...
In general, in all states in Mexico the proportion of males who drop out of secondary school is higher than for women. Yet Guanajuato stands out for having one of the country's highest dropout rates among girls. In the year 2000 it had the ninth highest female desertion rate for girls; ...
Italy makes for an interesting case study due to the length of school-to-work transitions and the extent of gender differences in this phase. In an era of educational expansion and increased female activation, studying changes in low-educated women's labor-market access brings into focus the ...
This chapter, Chapter 2 in "the Economics of Gender in Mexico," uses retrospective household survey data from Mexico to assess the long-term impacts of school dropout and of working early in life, in terms of adult labor market returns. Through these data, it is possible to link adult wage...
Descriptive statistics were used to examine the distribution of school attendance, household educational spending, and background characteristics for the full and gender-disaggregated samples. Bivariate analyses were carried out to understand the percentage differences between the school attendance of boys and...
Men and women differ in the mental health issues they typically face. This study aims to describe gender differences in preferences for mental health treatment options and specifically tries to identify participants who prefer AI-based therapy over traditional face-to-face therapy. Method A nationally...
For these reasons, improved water and sanitation facilities have been shown to increase school enrolment as well as a reduction in school dropout rates for girls (Pouramin et al., 2020) (target 5.c). Long-term benefits are significant, as higher education for women is correlated with reduced...
(2021) find that previous relative gains in wellbeing reported by adolescents and youth have disappeared since the pandemic, with significant losses in learning and increases in school dropout rates across the countries studied which historically have led to higher rates of poverty among this cohort ...
The construct of school engagement has attracted growing interest as a way to ameliorate the decline in academic achievement and increase in dropout rates. The current study tested the fit of a second-order multidimensional factor model of school engagement, using large-scale representative data on ...
As we have shown thus far, women have been consistently underrepresented on editorial boards across disciplines over the past decades. Let us now investigate whether this phenomenon can be explained by gender differences in productivity, impact and career lengths, or whether additional hidden factors ...