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Science 30 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5880, pp. 1164 - 1165
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154094
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DIVERSITY:
Culture, Gender, and Math

Luigi Guiso,1* Ferdinando Monte,2* Paola Sapienza,3*† Luigi Zingales4*

Analysis of PISA results suggests that the gender gap in math scores disappears in countries with a more gender-equal culture.

1European University Institute, Villa San Paolo, Via della Piazzuola 43, 50133 Florence, Italy.

2Economics Department, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

3Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

4Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

*These authors contributed equally to this work.

†To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Paola-Sapienza{at}northwestern.edu

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