Culture, Feedback, and Gender in Education

Lavinia Kinne

in ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung from ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter 3 hereby employs novel machine-learning methods to derive intertemporal preference measures from Facebook data. Using a field experiment among university students, chapter 4 shows that the ordering in which positive and negative performance feedback is provided, matters for study motivation and to some extent also exam performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly related to wages, especially at the top of the wage distribution.

Keywords: Patience; Risk-taking; Preferences; Culture; Intertemporal Decision-making; International Student Achievement; PISA; Student Achievement; Regions; Social Media; Facebook; Education; Feedback; Motivation; Performance; Gender Wage Gap; Skills; Numeracy; PIA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D83 D91 I20 I21 I23 I24 J16 J24 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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