Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023
This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors … spillovers that depend on the gender mix of a dyad. Same-gender siblings copy one another, while younger brothers recoil from …-dominated program of Engineering. Back of the envelope calculations reveal these within family spillovers have sizable implications for …