Replication data for "Societal inequalities amplify gender gaps in math"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Thomas Breda, Paris School of Economics; Clotilde Napp, Université Paris-Dauphine; Elyès Jouini, Université Paris-Dauphine

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Breda, Thomas, Napp, Clotilde, and Jouini, Elyès. Replication data for “Societal inequalities amplify gender gaps in math.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-03-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E101800V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers. Using data from five successive waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that this underrepresentation is more severe in more unequal countries. This relationship holds for a wide range of societal inequalities that are not directly related to gender. It is also observed in other parts of the performance distribution and among various sets of countries, including developing countries. Similar relationships are found in science and reading. Such findings highlight how differences in socio-economic and cultural factors can affect gender gaps in performance.

Scope of Project

Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1950 – 2015 (mostly from 2003 to 2015)
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2017 – 2017
Universe:  View help for Universe World


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