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| Title: | | Academic performance and single-sex schooling: Evidence from a natural experiment in Switzerland  |
| Authors: | | Eisenkopf, Gerald Hessami, Zohal Fischbacher, Urs Ursprung, Heinrich |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper: Economics of Education 3592 |
| Abstract: | | We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational and single-sex classes on the academic performance of female high school students. Our estimation results show that single-sex schooling improves the performance of female students in mathematics. This positive effect increases if the single-sex class is taught by a male teacher. An accompanying survey reveals that single-sex schooling also strengthens female students' self-confidence and renders the self-assessment of their mathematics skills more level-headed. Single-sex schooling thus has profound implications for human capital formation and the mind-set of female students. |
| Subjects: | | gender math gap single-sex education coeducation natural experiment |
| JEL: | | I21 J16 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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