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Science 28 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5906, pp. 1331 - 1332
DOI: 10.1126/science.1162573
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Education Forum

ASSESSMENT:
Global Sex Differences in Test Score Variability

Stephen Machin1 and Tuomas Pekkarinen2*

International testing results show greater variance in boys' scores than in girls' scores.

1Department of Economics, University College London, London, WC1 6BT, UK, and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London, WC2A 2AE, UK.

2Department of Economics, Helsinki School of Economics, 00101 Helsinki, Finland; Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), 00101 Helsinki, Finland; and Department of Econonmics and Statistics, Åbo Akademi University, 20500 Turku, Finland.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: tuomas.pekkarinen{at}hse.fi

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Gender, culture, and mathematics performance.
(2009)
PNAS 106, 8801-8807


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