Are There Gender Differences in High School Economics in the Eighties?
The article analyzes whether males and females achieved equally when they all took a required course in economics. Studies of achievement in introductory college level economics courses have frequently concluded that females perform at a lower level than their male counterparts. While it has been ge...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Economic Education Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 57 - 66 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Summer82
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