O'Neill, Donal (2013) Gender, single-sex schooling and maths achievement. Economics of Education Review, 35. pp. 104-119. ISSN 0272-7757

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Single-sex education; Mathematics; Gender gap;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting
Item ID:	8691
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.04.001
Depositing User:	Donal O'Neill
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2017 09:10
Journal or Publication Title:	Economics of Education Review
Publisher:	Elsevier
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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