German study: Girls know less about economics than boys in school

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2025-08-29

Berlin (dpa) - Girls perform worse than boys in economics during their school years, according to a large-scale study by the University of Tübingen in Germany. The study, which involved nearly 2,000 pupils aged 15 and 16, found that girls scored on average 13% lower than boys in tests. This corresponds to a learning gap of almost three-quarters of a school year, explained study author Lucy Haag. In the tests, boys answered more than eight out o......

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