A new insight into the gender gap in math

In the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort, I find that the gender gap is not uniform across the distribution of math skills and that these quantile-specific gaps vary with age. Specifically, girls at the top of the distribution initially fall behind boys but manage to catch up la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sohn, Kitae
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51778