Girls Dominate, Boys Left Behind: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Education Outcomes in Jamaica.
This paper utilizes administrative data to investigate the gender gap in high school performance on various high-stakes exams and the gender disparity in academic outcomes at the leading university in the Caribbean. The results show that female students outperformed their male peers, being 8.5 and 6...
| Publicado en: | Economía Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 21 - 43 |
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London School of Economics & Political Science
2025
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