O'Neill, Donal
(2013)
Gender, single-sex schooling and maths achievement.
Economics of Education Review, 35.
pp. 104-119.
ISSN 0272-7757
Abstract
This paper uses a distinctive feature of the Irish education system to examine the impact of
single-sex education on the gender difference in mathematical achievement at the top of
the distribution. The Irish primary school system is interesting both for the fact that many
children attend single-sex schools, and because these single-sex schools are part of the
general educational system, rather than serving a particular socio-economic group. In
keeping with research on other countries, we find a significant gender gap in favour of
boys, but contrary to suggestions in the literature, our results provide no evidence that
single-sex schooling reduces the gap. If anything, the gender differential is larger for
children educated in single-sex schools than in coeducational schools.
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