Gender Gaps in Student Achievement in Turkey: PISA 2015 Findings

Gender Gaps in Student Achievement in Turkey: PISA 2015 Findings Gender Gaps in Student Achievement in Turkey: PISA 2015 Findings

This work revisits academic achievement gender gaps in reading, mathematics and science in Turkey, using the most recent wave of data collected by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2015. It starts by estimating education production functions in reading, mathematics and science for boys and girls separately, and follows by decomposing the predicted gender gaps into components due to student, family and school characteristics, and due to the returns on the characteristics.


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