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Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Waltenberg, Fabio D. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
We evaluate how far away six Latin American countries stand from a normative goal of equality of opportunity for educational achievement in PISA 2006-2009. We work with alternative characterizations of types: gender, school type (public or private), parental education, and their combinations. Following Checchi-Peragine's (2010) non-parametric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, Public Schools
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Black, Dan A.; Haviland, Amelia M.; Sanders, Seth G.; Taylor, Lowell J. – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
We examine gender wage disparities for four groups of college-educated women--black, Hispanic, Asian, and non-Hispanic white--using the National Survey of College Graduates. Raw log wage gaps, relative to non-Hispanic white male counterparts, generally exceed -0.30. Estimated gaps decline to between -0.08 and -0.19 in nonparametric analyses that…
Descriptors: Wages, Females, Employment Patterns, College Graduates
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2005
In a study of the effects of complainers' sex, age, perceived situational seriousness, and social class on the use of conversational strategies in their complaining behavior, 465 subjects of varying age, sex, and social class were observed and tape recorded in spontaneous conversation by 25 field workers. The field workers also filled out a…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Social Class, Nonparametric Statistics, Interpersonal Communication