and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

the gender of the student. The identification strategy is based on quasi-random variation in the exposure to HP peers … particular with peers of the same gender. Moreover, there is evidence that the exposure to HP males can be even negative …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

' programming skills and on their awareness of gender differences in the workforce. However, it did not seem to affect girls …' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …

This paper considers the impacts of grades and information on gender gaps in college major and college dropout rates at … on college gender gaps but may not fully outweigh the saliency of grades. Finally, we consider the extent to which … aligning economics grading standards with those of competing disciplines would reduce the gender gap in economics graduates but …

We study gender differences in decision-making strategy when applying for college using applications data for all … examine how the college choices of equally achieving students differ by gender. We find that female students better balance … for a particular college. When we investigate how effects differ across the achievement distribution, we find that gender …

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap. …

Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …