The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions
This paper uses a new data source, American Mathematics Competitions, to examine the gender gap among high school students at very high achievement levels. The data bring out several new facts. There is a large gender gap that widens dramatically at percentiles above those that can be examined using...
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American Economic Association
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71007 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-0855 |