experiment embedded in a survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided … find that expectations of working among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected … women …

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees … newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. Contrary to the existing literature, I find that family … of other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally is taken into account …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students. The … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women's college completion rate. Behind these changes …

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then understanding whether women's colleges causally affect that choice is important …

We study a unique grading policy at a large US public university allowing students to mask their letter grades into a … "Pass", after having observed their original grade. Using administrative transcript records, we find that female students … are substantially less likely to mask their grades than male students, even after accounting for differences in grades …

arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment … as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …

The rapid rise in e-cigarette use rates among high school students in the United States is a significant source of … on the demand for vaping products by high school students. The findings from this study provide strong evidence that …

-based aid is simply redistribution or a method of internalizing externalities among students. Many students would like colleges … would not qualify based on need. Yet, the same students might prefer a regime of need-based aid, knowing that it would apply …