Male–female achievement variance comparisons are not robust

Carly Domicolo and Eric Nielsen

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 220, issue C

Abstract: Males have greater variability in achievement than females in almost all countries using internationally comparable test scores. However, these variance comparisons can frequently be reversed using economically plausible, order-preserving rescalings of the psychometrically derived test scores. The oft-cited “Greater Male Variability Hypothesis” for achievement may be a psychometric artifact.

Keywords: Human capital; Variance hypothesis; Gender differences; Achievement; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I J (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110853

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